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ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011)Venice, Italy |
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ISCA International Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2011)Venice, Italy |
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To acquire a second language, one must develop an ear and
tongue for the correct stress and intonation patterns of that
language. In English language teaching, there is an effective
method called Jazz Chants for working on the sound system. In
this paper, we propose a method for predicting stressed words,
which play a crucial role in Jazz Chants. The proposed method
is specially designed for stress prediction in Jazz chants. It exploits
several sources of information including words, POSs,
sentence types, and the constraint on the number of stressed
words in a chant text. Experiments show that the proposed
method achieves an &# 4;-measure of 0.936 and outperforms the
other methods implemented for comparison. The proposed
method is expected to be useful in supporting non-native teachers
of English when they teach chants to students and create
chant texts with stress marks from arbitrary texts.
Index Terms. language learning, stress prediction, teaching
material generation, Jazz Chants, stress-timed rhythm
Bibliographic reference. Nagata, Ryo / Marueki, Toshiaki / Funakoshi, Kotaro / Kitamura, Tatsuya / Nakano, Mikio (2011): "A method for predicting stressed words in English jazz chants", In SLaTE-2011, 81-84.