Exploiting acoustic and syntactic features for prosody labeling in a maximum entropy framework

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-8

  Rangarajan, Vivek ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a   Bangalore, Srinivas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC PROSODY LABELING; BOSTON UNIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELS; PITCH ACCENTS; PROSODY LABELING; SPEECH INFORMATION; SYNTACTIC FEATURES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84858405009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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