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
A stochastic parts program and noun phrase parser for unrestricted text
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Acquiring disambiguation rules from text
ACL '89 Proceedings of the 27th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Structure and intonation in spoken language understanding
ACL '90 Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Some applications of tree-based modelling to speech and language
HLT '89 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
Rhythmic organization of mandarin utterances — a two-stage process
ISCSLP'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Chinese Spoken Language Processing
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Determining the relationship between the intonational characteristics of an utterance and other features inferable from its text is important both for speech recognition and for speech synthesis. This work investigates the use of text analysis in predicting the location of intonational phrase boundaries in natural speech, through analyzing 298 utterances from the DARPA Air Travel Information Service database. For statistical modeling, we employ Classification and Regression Tree (CART) techniques. We achieve success rates of just over 90%, representing a major improvement over other attempts at boundary prediction from unrestricted text.