Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS'03) September 5-8, 2003 Göteborg, Sweden

Evaluation of a Robust Parser for Spoken Japanese

Kotaro Funakoshi, Takenobu Tokunaga

Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

We implemented a parser designed to handle ill-formedness in Japanese speech. The parser was evaluated by utilizing newly collected speech data, which was obtained from an experiment designed to produce ill-formed data effectively. Introducing the proposed method increased the number of correctly analyzed utterances from 171 to 322, from among 532 utterances in the corpus.

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Bibliographic reference.  Funakoshi, Kotaro / Tokunaga, Takenobu (2003): "Evaluation of a robust parser for spoken Japanese", In DiSS'03, 55-58.