Evaluation of PROS-3 for the assignment of prosodic structure, compared to assignment by human experts

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 529-532

  Van Herwijnen, Olga ^a   Terken, Jacques ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYNTACTICS;

HUMAN EXPERT; PERCEPTION EXPERIMENT; PROSODIC PHRASINGS; PROSODIC STRUCTURE; SYNTACTIC PARSERS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009080290     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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