Phonology and syntax: the relationship between sound and structure
Phonology and syntax: the relationship between sound and structure
From text to speech: the MITalk system
From text to speech: the MITalk system
A computational grammar of discourse-neutral prosodic phrasing in English
Computational Linguistics
The use of relative duration in syntactic disambiguation
HLT '90 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Building a large annotated corpus of English: the penn treebank
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on using large corpora: II
A stochastic parts program and noun phrase parser for unrestricted text
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Parsing with a small dictionary for applications such as text to speech
Computational Linguistics
Acquiring disambiguation rules from text
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
ACL '90 Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Integrating syntactic and prosodic information for the efficient detection of empty categories
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
New statistical methods for phrase break prediction
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Stochastic and syntactic techniques for predicting phrase breaks
Computer Speech and Language
Evaluation of automatic break insertion for an agglutinative and inflected language
Speech Communication
The value of minimal prosodic information in spoken language corpora
Transcribe '98 Proceedings of the Workshop on Partially Automated Techniques for Transcribing Naturally Occurring Continuous Speech
Chinese prosodic phrasing with the source-channel modela
CCDC'09 Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Chinese control and decision conference
Consistency maintenance in prosodic labeling for reliable prediction of prosodic breaks
LAW V '11 Proceedings of the 5th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Rhythmic organization of mandarin utterances — a two-stage process
ISCSLP'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
Experimental evaluation of tree-based algorithms for intonational breaks representation
TSD'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
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Prosodic phrase structure provides important information for the understanding and naturalness of synthetic speech, and a good model of prosodic phrases has applications in both speech synthesis and speech understanding. This work describes a statistical model of an embedded hierarchy of prosodic phrase structure, motivated by results in linguistic theory. Each level of the hierarchy is modeled as a sequence of subunits at the next level, with the lowest level of the hierarchy representing factors such as syntactic branching and prosodic constituent length using a binary tree classification. A maximum likelihood solution for parameter estimation is presented, allowing automatic training of different speaking styles. For predicting prosodic phrase breaks from text, a dynamic programming algorithm is given for finding the maximum probability prosodic parse. Experimental results on a corpus of radio news demonstrate a high rate of success for predicting major and minor phrase boundaries from text without syntactic information (81% correct prediction with 4% false prediction).