Acoustic classification of focus in a web corpus of comparatives

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Author
Howell, Jonathan
Rooth, Mats
Wagner, Michael
Abstract

Describes experiments in using a support-vector-machine to classify intonational focus on pronouns in a web-derived corpus of comparative clauses.

Description
Slides for presentation at workshop New Tools and Methods for Very-Large-Scale Phonetics Research, University of Pennsylvania, Jan. 28-31, 2011.
Sponsorship
NSF BCS 1035151 "RAPID: Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web" (Digging into Data Challenge) and
SSHRC "Harvesting Speech Datasets for Linguistic Research on the Web"
Date Issued
2011-06-02
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Type
presentation