Syntactic-prosodic labeling of large spontaneous speech data-bases

Batliner A, Kompe R, KIESSLING A, Niemann H, Nöth E (1996)

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 1996

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Pages Range: 1720-1723

Conference Proceedings Title: Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing

Event location: Philadelphia, PA US

URI: http://www5.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/Forschung/Publikationen/1996/Batliner96-SLO.pdf

Abstract

In automatic speech understanding, the division of continuously running speech into syntactic chunks is a great problem. Syntactic boundaries are often marked by prosodic means. For the training of statistic models for prosodic boundaries large data-bases are necessary. For the German VERBMOBIL project (automatic speech-to-speech translation), we developed a syntactic-prosodic labeling scheme where two main types of boundaries (major syntactic boundaries and syntactically ambiguous boundaries) and some other special boundaries are labeled for a large VERBMOBIL spontaneous speech corpus. We compare the results of classifiers (multilayer perceptrons and language models) trained on these syntactic-prosodic boundary labels with classifiers trained on perceptual-prosodic and pure syntactic labels. The main advantage of the rough syntactic-prosodic labels presented in this paper is that large amounts of data could be labeled within a short time. Therefore, the classifiers trained with these labels turned out to be superior (recognition rates of up to 96%).

Authors with CRIS profile

Anton Batliner Lehrstuhl für Informatik 14 (Bild- und Sprachverarbeitung) (LME) Heinrich Niemann Technische Fakultät Elmar Nöth Professur für Informatik (Mustererkennung)

How to cite

APA:

Batliner, A., Kompe, R., KIESSLING, A., Niemann, H., & Nöth, E. (1996). Syntactic-prosodic labeling of large spontaneous speech data-bases. In ICSLP (Eds.), Proc. Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing (pp. 1720-1723). Philadelphia, PA, US: -: -.

MLA:

Batliner, Anton, et al. "Syntactic-prosodic labeling of large spontaneous speech data-bases." Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Philadelphia, PA Ed. ICSLP, -: -, 1996. 1720-1723.

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