Prosody in Speech Recognition and Understanding October 22-24, 2001 Molly Pitcher Inn, Red Bank, NJ, USA

Prosody Pattern Recognition and Identification of Utterance Intentions in Japanese Spontaneous Speech

Akira Kurematsu, Mitsuhiro Hosoki, Yasuo Morimoto

Course of Electronics Engineering, Univ. of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

This paper describes a study on the identifying of speech acts in Japanese spontaneous speech, based on prosodic information. The procedure for identifying dialogue act tags relevant to illocutional force types by analyzing of the prosodic information and through keyword recognition is described. The annotation elements contain illocutional force types, following Japanese dialogue tagging procedure. The use of prosody information is shown to be effective for dialogue tagging of Japanese spontaneous dialogue.

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Bibliographic reference.  Kurematsu, Akira / Hosoki, Mitsuhiro / Morimoto, Yasuo (2001): "Prosody pattern recognition and identification of utterance intentions in Japanese spontaneous speech", In Prosody-2001, paper 17.