... common inspontaneous speech – one study found 30% of dia-logue turns contained repairs (Carletta et al., 1993)and another study found one repair every 4.8 sec-onds (Blackmer and Mitton, 1991). ... and saves more potential exam-ples of fluent speech rules, and therefore potentiallymakes better use of limited data.3 EvaluationThe evaluation of this system was performed on the Switchboard ... ACL-08: HLT, Short Papers (Companion Volume), pages 105–108,Columbus, Ohio, USA, June 2008.c2008 Association for Computational LinguisticsA Unified Syntactic Model for Parsing Fluent and Disfluent...