Effective use of prosody in parsing conversational speech

Jeremy G. Kahn; Matthew Lease; Eugene Charniak; Mark Johnson; Mari Ostendorf

doi:10.3115/1220575.1220605

Effective use of prosody in parsing conversational speech

Jeremy G. Kahn^*, Matthew Lease, Eugene Charniak, Mark Johnson, Mari Ostendorf

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Abstract

We identify a set of prosodic cues for parsing conversational speech and show how such features can be effectively incorporated into a statistical parsing model. On the Switchboard corpus of conversational speech, the system achieves improved parse accuracy over a state-of-the-art system which uses only lexical and syntactic features. Since removal of edit regions is known to improve downstream parse accuracy, we explore alternatives for edit detection and show that PCFGs are not competitive with more specialized techniques.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Conference
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg, PA
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	233-240
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1220575.1220605
Publication status	Published - Oct 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, HLT/EMNLP 2005, Co-located with the 2005 Document Understanding Conference, DUC and the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, IWPT - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: 6 Oct 2005 → 8 Oct 2005

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Other	Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, HLT/EMNLP 2005, Co-located with the 2005 Document Understanding Conference, DUC and the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, IWPT
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	6/10/05 → 8/10/05

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Kahn, J. G., Lease, M., Charniak, E., Johnson, M., & Ostendorf, M. (2005). Effective use of prosody in parsing conversational speech. In Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 233-240). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.3115/1220575.1220605

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Kahn, JG, Lease, M, Charniak, E, Johnson, M & Ostendorf, M 2005, Effective use of prosody in parsing conversational speech. in Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Stroudsburg, PA, pp. 233-240, Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, HLT/EMNLP 2005, Co-located with the 2005 Document Understanding Conference, DUC and the 9th International Workshop on Parsing Technologies, IWPT, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 6/10/05. https://doi.org/10.3115/1220575.1220605

Effective use of prosody in parsing conversational speech. / Kahn, Jeremy G.; Lease, Matthew; Charniak, Eugene et al.
Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Proceedings of the Conference. Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2005. p. 233-240.

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