Perceptually Motivated Parameters for Automatic Prosodic Annotation
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This contribution presents an approach to automatic prosodic annotation which emphasizes the linguistic motivation and perceptual relevance of the features used for classifying the prosodic categories. The analyses and experiments presented here were conducted on a 2.5 hours German news-like corpus which had been manually annotated using GToBI(S) (Mayer, 1995). GToBI(S) is an adaptation of American English ToBI (Silverman et al., 1992; Beckman and Ayers, 1994) to German.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012