Learning to predict pitch accents and prosodic boundaries in Dutch

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2003-July, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Marsi, Erwin ^a   Reynaert, Martin ^a   van den Bosch, Antal ^a   Daelemans, Walter ^b   Hoste, Véronique ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORECASTING; ITERATIVE METHODS;

DATA YIELDS; F-SCORE; GENERALISATION; ITERATIVE DEEPENING; PITCH ACCENTS; PROGRESSIVE SAMPLING; PROSODIC BOUNDARY; PROSODICS; TRAINING DATA;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 85149140499     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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