Effectiveness of prosodic features in syntactic analysis of read Japanese sentences

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Hirose, Yukiyoshi ^a   Ozeki, Kazuhiko ^a   Takagi, Kazuyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DEPENDENCY DISTANCES; FEATURE VALUES; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL INFORMATION; PHRASE BOUNDARY; PROSODIC FEATURES; STATISTICAL MODELING; SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 85009070780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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