ESCA Workshop on Prosody Lund, Sweden September 27-29, 1993

Combining Statistical and Linguistic Methods for Modeling Prosody

Mari Ostendorf (1), Patti J. Price (2), Stephanie Shattuck-Hufnagel (3)

(1) ECS Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
(2) SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
(3) Speech Communication, RLE, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

We describe a general approach to computational modeling of prosody that combines statistical models with linguistic theory. Statistical models provide a mechanism for representing variability, for automatically training parameters, and for analyzing large corpora. Linguistic theory provides model structure and guides feature extraction. We illustrate the approach with examples from our own work and from the work of others.

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Bibliographic reference.  Ostendorf, Mari / Price, Patti J. / Shattuck-Hufnagel, Stephanie (1993): "Combining statistical and linguistic methods for modeling prosody", In Prosody-1993, 272-275.