The role of pause occurrence and pause duration in the signaling of narrative structure

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2389, Issue , 2002, Pages 43-51

  Oliveira, Miguel ^a  

^a Instituto de Linguística Teórica e Computacional ILTEC   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

NARRATIVE STRUCTURES; PROSODIC FEATURES;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84867327489     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45433-0_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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