A robust unsupervised arousal rating framework using prosody with cross-corpora evaluation

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1174-1177

  Bone, Daniel ^a   Lee, Chi Chun ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth S ^a  

^a Signal Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory SAIL   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Arousal rating; Cross corpora; Inter rater reliability; Knowledge based; Unsupervised

Indexed keywords

BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-CORPORA; INTER-RATER RELIABILITIES; KNOWLEDGE-BASED; MULTIPLE FEATURES; SIGNAL CLASSIFICATION; UNSUPERVISED; UNSUPERVISED METHOD;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

RATING;

EID: 84878390748     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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