Prosody-based topic segmentation for mandarin broadcast news

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 137-140

  Levow, Gina Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; ANAPHORA RESOLUTION; AUDIO SOURCES; BROADCAST NEWS; FEATURE-BASED SEGMENTATIONS; MANDARIN CHINESE; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; TEXT SOURCES; TONE LANGUAGES; TOPIC SEGMENTATIONS;

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EID: 84902078141     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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