The problem of speech segmentation is a well-known challenge for various studies, such as language acquisition: how do children correctly infer the position of word boundaries in the continuous stream of speech? One solution to this problem, referred to as the utterance-boundary strategy, is to reuse the information provided by the occurrence of specific phonemes sequences at utterance edges in...

This paper propose a topical text segmentation method based on intended boundaries detection and compare it to a well known default boundaries detection method, c99. We ran the two methods on a corpus of twenty two French political discourses and results showed us that intended boundaries detection is better than default boundaries detection on well structured text.

The goal of this paper is to investigate French word segmentation strategies using phonemic and lexical transcriptions as well as prosodic and part-of-speech annotations. Average fundamental frequency (f0) profiles and phoneme duration profiles are measured using 13 hours of broadcast news speech to study prosodic regularities of French words. Some influential factors are taken into considerati...

In practice, lexical chains are typically built using term reiteration or resource-based measures of semantic distance. The former approach misses out on a significant portion of the inherent semantic information in a text, while the latter suffers from the limitations of the linguistic resource it depends upon. In this paper, chains are constructed using the framework of distributional measure...