Word Informativeness and Automatic Pitch Accent Modeling

Proceedings of the 1999 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, EMNLP 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 148-157

  Pan, Shimei ^a   McKeown, Kathleen R ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

INFORMATIVENESS; PITCH ACCENTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SPEECH SYNTHESIS SYSTEM;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 85123467304     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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