To memorize or to predict: Prominence labeling in conversational speech

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 9-16

  Nenkova, A ^a   Brenier, J ^a   Kothari, A ^a   Calhoun, S ^b   Whitton, L ^a   Beaver, D ^a   Jurafsky, D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADCAST NEWS; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; N-GRAMS; PART OF SPEECH; YIELD PREDICTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84858409651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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