On the role of context and prosody in the interpretation of 'okay'

ACL 2007 - Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 800-807

  Gravano, Agustín ^a   Benus, Stefan ^a   Chávez, Héctor ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Wilcox, Lauren ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CUES; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; CONTEXTUAL CUE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 80053395521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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