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

The Use of Prosody in Japanese Dependency Structure Analysis

Kazuhiko Ozeki, Kazuyuki Takagi, Hajime Kubota

The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Natural language processing has traditionally relied solely on information extracted from written materials. Recently, as part of natural language processing and speech processing merge into spoken language processing, a new possibility is opening up to exploit prosodic information, which is lost when utterances are transcribed into letters or characters, for language processing. Such a possibility is worth pursuing from both linguistic and technological points of view. This paper focuses on syntactic information contained in prosodic features extracted from read Japanese sentences, and describes a method of exploiting it in dependency structure analysis.

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Bibliographic reference.  Ozeki, Kazuhiko / Takagi, Kazuyuki / Kubota, Hajime (2001): "The use of prosody in Japanese dependency structure analysis", In Prosody-2001, paper 23.