Prosodic aids to syntactic and semantic analysis of spoken English

Authors:
Chris Rowles;Xluming Huang
Affiliations:
Australia and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Clayton, Victoria, Australia;Australia and Overseas Telecommunications Corporation, Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
Venue:
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Year:
1992

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Abstract

Prosody can be useful in resolving certain lexical and structural ambiguities in spoken English. In this paper we present some results of employing two types of prosodic information, namely pitch and pause, to assist syntactic and semantic analysis during parsing.