accents in conversational speech

... CRF:All in Table 5). We get about 0.5% increase in accuracy, 76.1% with a window of size w = 1. Using larger windows resulted in minor increases in the performance of the model, as summarized in Table ... 17th International Conference on Machine Learning. A. McCallum. 2003. Efficiently inducing features of Conditional Random Fields. In Proc. of Un- certainty in Articifical Intelligence. T. Minka. ... understanding. In this paper we investigate probabilistic, contex- tual, and phonological factors that in uence pitch accent placement in natural, conversational speech in a sequence labeling setting....

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... monitor- ing levels of agreement during a conversation. In Proc. of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium. M. Collins. 2000. Discriminative reranking for nat- ural language parsing. In Proc. 17th Interna- tional ... Entropy Ranking We view the problem as an instance of statisti- cal ranking, a general machine learning paradigm used for example in statistical parsing (Collins, 2000) and question answering (Ravichandran ... several empirical analyses in or- der to determine to what extent contextual informa- tion helps in discriminating between agreement and disagreement. By integrating the interpretation of the pragmatic...

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... SPEECH Imperatives Direct speech Indirect speech Affirmative Imperative V 1 + …… Mike said to Henry, “Come in, please.” S+ told / asked B + to + V 1 + …… Mike told Mary to come in. Negative Imperative Don’t ... Last week / year → The next/ following day → The day before → The following week/ year → The previous week / year B. Practice: I. Change into reported speech: (Imperatives: Câu mệnh lệnh) 1. ... She said to them, “Can you go fishing with me?” III. Change into reported speech: (Advice: Câu khuyên nhủ) 11.The doctor said to the patient, “You should stay in bed today.” 12.The teacher...

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... training data and the ngram-based model was retrained on the remaining subset. Figure 2: Empirical differences in sociolinguistic features for Gender on the Switchboard corpus 6 Incorporating ... speakers used for training and 100 speakers used for testing, re- sulting in a total of 4062 conversation sides for training and 808 conversation sides for testing. 4 Modeling Gender via Ngram ... conversation, resulting in the same number of training/test speakers as conver- sations, and thus there was no overlap in speak- ers/partners between training and test sets. Only non-lexical sociolinguistic...

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... The decoding pro- cess proceeds as follows: 3.1 Training and decoding Training data for ALTERF is supplied in the form of a text file containing one example per line, in the format 1. Initialise ... features. • Quantity of training data. • Modality (text or speech) of training data. We randomly divided the training corpus into ten equal pieces, and trained on subsets ranging from 10% of the corpus ... Percentage semantic interpretation errors on in- domain test data for different amounts of training data and different versions of the system. Training and test data both in speech form. "Data" =...

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... utterances used in training. In some experiments (#1 and 2) we trained with the entire training set 3 , including sen- tences without speaker errors, and in others (#3-6) we trained only on those ... Jelinek. 2008. Linguis- tic resources for reconstructing spontaneous speech text. In Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, May. Erin Fitzgerald. 2009. Reconstructing ... ig- nored for these error tagging experiments. We approach our training of CRFs in several ways, detailed in Table 3. In half of our exper- iments (#1, 3, and 4), we trained a single model to predict...

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... examined in principle, but without going too deeoly into the code. 3.1 Sentence Processing Firstly, the user types in a sentence in normal English text, with word boundaries ind/cated in ... that an increase in intensity with no corresponding pitch increase was never- theless heard as a pitch raise. Interestingly enough, a drop in intensity was not heard as a drop in pitch, merely ... This is indeed true in a great number of cases, but by no means all, as pointed out by Bolinger (Bolinger 1958). For instance, consider the following phrase (taken to mean "do continue"):...

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... prediction in conversational speech. In IWCS 6, Sixth International Workshop on Computational Se- mantics, Tilburg, Netherlands. H Schmid. 1994. Probabilistic part-of -speech tagging using decision ... information. In this paper the best performing measures from (Pucher, 2005), which outperform baseline models on word prediction for conversational tele- phone speech are used for Automatic Speech ... taxonomy. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Re- search in Computational Linguistics, Taiwan. Ted Pedersen, S. Patwardhan, and J. Michelizzi. 2004. WordNet::Similarity - Measuring the...

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... Modelling and Adaptivity in a Speech- based E-mail System Kristiina JOKINEN University of Helsinki and University of Art and Design Helsinki Hämeentie 135C 00560 Helsinki kjokinen@uiah.fi ... speech- based dialogue systems, and to familiarize themselves to synthesized speech and speech recognizers, they had a short training session with another speech application in the beginning ... user expertise. While not entering into discussions about the limits of rule-based thinking (e.g. in order to model intuitive decision making of the experts according to the Dreyfus model), we...

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... warranted because the resulting system will be considerably more robust in the face of inacct~rate or indeterminate input concerning the nature of the weak syllables in the input utterance. CONCLUSION ... distinguish word.initial/I/ in/ 17/fzom word-inlernal /I/ in /hid/? In this paper, I shall argue for a model which splits the lexical access process into a pre-lexical phonological parsing ... 'narrow' phonetic information is recovered from the signal, such as aspiration of M in/ rE/ and /tam/ in (1) in order m recoguise tim preceding syllable botmdsrles. It is only in. terms of this...

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... speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts. The proportion of individual types in the play is outlined in the following ... direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, direct speech acts motivated by indirect speech acts and finally indirect speech acts motivated by indirect speech ... interesting from the point of view of indirectness. The play contains four types of exchanges: direct speech acts motivated by direct speech acts, indirect speech acts motivated by direct speech...

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... quality of speech engines. Finally, we demonstrate a human-computer interaction software in T-Engine embedded system. I. INTRODUCTION In this paper, we are concerned with the combination of speech ... layout III. PROPOSED METHOD FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION IN T-ENGINE Fig.2. Speech recognition in T-Engine The UDA1342 audio codec in T-Engine provides a minimal sampling frequency (SF) of 44100Hz. ... as follows. In Section 2, a short introduction of T-Engine is given, while a method proposed for speech recognition in T-Engine is provided in Section 3, following is Vietnamese speech synthesis...

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