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doi:10.22028/D291-25123
Title: | Improving parsing by incorporating "prosodic clause boundaries" into a grammar |
Author(s): | Bakenecker, G. Block, U. Batliner, Anton Kompe, Ralf Nöth, Elmar Regel-Brietzmann, P. |
Language: | English |
Year of Publication: | 1994 |
OPUS Source: | Saarbrücken, 1994 |
SWD key words: | Künstliche Intelligenz |
DDC notations: | 004 Computer science, internet |
Publikation type: | Report |
Abstract: | In written language, punctuation is used to separate main and subordinate clause. In spoken language, ambiguities arise due to missing punctuation, but clause boundaries are often marked prosodically and can be used instead. We detect PCBs (Prosodically markedClauseBoundaries) by using prosodic features (duration, intonation, energy, and pause information) with a neural network, achieving a recognition rate of 82%. PCBs are integrated into our grammar using a special syntactic category "break" that can be used in the phrase-structure rules of the grammar in a similar way as punctuation is used in grammars for written language. Whereas punctuation in most cases is obligatory, PCBs are sometimes optional. Moreover, they can in principle occur everywhere in the sentence due e.g. to hesitations or misrecognition. To cope with these problems we tested two different approaches: A slightly modified parser for word chains containing PCBs and a word graph parser that takes the probabilities of PCBs into account. Tests were conducted on a subset of infinitive subordinate clauses from a large speech database containing sentences from the domain of train table inquiries. The average number of syntactic derivations could be reduced by about 70 % even when working on recognized word graphs. |
Link to this record: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:291-scidok-40752 hdl:20.500.11880/25179 http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-25123 |
Series name: | Vm-Report / Verbmobil, Verbundvorhaben, [Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz] |
Series volume: | 37 |
Date of registration: | 3-Aug-2011 |
Faculty: | SE - Sonstige Einrichtungen |
Department: | SE - DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz |
Collections: | SciDok - Der Wissenschaftsserver der Universität des Saarlandes |
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