Prosodic sentence analysis without parsing
Year: 1993
Type: book
Abstract: Suprasegmental phenomena in synthetic speech should reflect the linguistic structure of the input text.An algorithm is described which establishes the prosodic sentence structure (PSS).This can be achieved without exhaustive syntactic parsing, using a dictionary of 550 function words.Subsequently, phrase and accent locations are derived from the PSS; accentuation is also affected by some semantic and contextual information.Some exemplary rules for labeling, prosodic domain construction and accentuation are discussed.Comparison of the resulting sentence prosody with natural speech suggests that more detailed syntactic analysis may be necessary.Most of the accentuation errors are caused by semantic, pragmatic and contextual factors.These can only partly be imitated, since the relations between linguistic representations and real-world knowledge are not yet fully understood.
Authors: Hugo Quené, René Kager
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2156734089