Stress

I examine various controversial aspects of Chinese prosody–tone structure, syllable structure, stress, and intonation–and stress the need to view all of these as interacting systems, aspects of a hierarchical prosodic …...

Stress is a useful cue for English word segmentation. A wide range of computa- tional models have found that stress cues enable a 2-10% improvement in segmen- tation accuracy, depending …...

AbstractEndowing automated agents with the ability to provide support, entertainment and interaction with human beings requires sensing of the users’ affective state. These affective states are impacted by a combination …...