Prosody, Syntax and Parsing

Abstract

We describe the modification of a grammar to take advantage of prosodic information provided by a speech recognition system. This initial study is limited to the use of relative duration of phonetic segments in the assignment of syntactic structure specifically in ruling out alternative parses in otherwise ambiguous sentences. Taking advantage of prosodic information in parsing can make a spoken language system more accurate and more efficient, if prosodic-syntactic mismatches, or unlikely matches, can be pruned. We know of no other work that has succeeded in automatically extracting speech information and using it in a parser to rule out extraneous parses.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 04, 1990
Accession Number
ADA460957

Entities

People

  • John Bear
  • Patti Price

Organizations

  • SRI International

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Availability
  • Classification
  • Contracts
  • Formal Languages
  • Grammars
  • Information Operations
  • Instructions
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Monitoring
  • Recognition
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Words (Language)

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Speech Processing/Speech Recognition.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation