A prosodic analysis of discourse segments in direction- giving monologues

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1996-June, Issue , 1996, Pages 286-293

  Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Nakatani, Christine H ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF DISCOURSE; CORPUS-BASED; DISCOURSE SEGMENTATION; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; PROSODIC ANALYSIS; PROSODIC FEATURES; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPEAKING STYLES;

EID: 85149113268     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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