Просодические особенности

We present results of a study of the relationship between intonational features including pitch range, timing, and amplitude and aspects of discourse structure defined in terms of Grosz and Sidner's …...

This paper focuses on the analysis and prediction of so-called aware sites, defined as turns where a user of a spoken dialogue system first becomes aware that the system has …...

This study addresses the problem of au- tomatically detecting decisions in conver- sational speech. We formulate the prob- lem as classifying decision-making units at two levels of granularity: dialogue acts …...

. This paper describes a preliminary work on prosody modeling aspect of a spoken language understanding system for Thai. Specifically, the model is designed to integrate prosodics into a language …...

Automatically detecting human social in- tentions from spoken conversation is an important task for dialogue understand- ing. Since the social intentions of the speaker may differ from what is perceived …...

Wizard-of-Oz experimental setup in a dia- logue system is commonly used to gather data for informing an automated version of that system. Previous work has exposed depen- dencies between user …...

We present a discriminative model for de- tecting disfluencies in spoken language tran- scripts. Structurally, our model is a semi- Markov conditional random field with features targeting characteristics unique to …...

AbstractThis paper describes the recording of a speech corpus focused on prosody of people with intellectual disabilities. To do this, a video game is used with the aim of improving …...

AbstractIn this study, we propose a conversation-analytic annotation scheme for turn-taking behavior in multi-party conversations. The annotation scheme is motivated by a proposal of a proper model of turn-taking incorporating …...

AbstractBy definition, spontaneous speech is unscripted and created on the fly by the speaker. It is dramatically different from read speech, where the words are authored as text before they …...

AbstractThis paper describes an automatic fluency evaluation of spontaneous speech. In the task of automatic fluency evaluation, we integrate diverse features of acoustics, prosody, and disfluency-based ones. Then, we attempt …...

For simultaneous interpretation, it is very important to identify appropriate segmentation boundaries so that the source text can be translated accurately and promptly. This paper proposes four different segmentation methods …...

AbstractA prerequisite for the computational study of literature is the availability of properly digitized texts, ideally with reliable meta-data and ground-truth annotation. Poetry corpora do exist for a number of …...

AbstractSpeech emotion conversion is the task of modifying the perceived emotion of a speech utterance while preserving the lexical content and speaker identity. In this study, we cast the problem …...