On the use of probabilistic grammars in speech annotation and segmentation tasks

Irina Nesterenko (1) , Stéphane Rauzy (1)

1 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage

The present paper explores the issue of corpus prosodic parsing in terms of prosodic words. This question is of importance in both speech processing and corpus annotation studies. We propose a method grounded on both statistical ans symbolic (phonologicial) representations of tonal phenomena and we have recourse to probabilisitic grammars, within which we implement a minimal prosodic hierarchical structure. Both stages of probabilistic grammar building and its testing in prediction are explored and quantitatively and qualitatively evaluated.

Mots clés: prosody; phonology; probabilistic grammar

Domaines: Linguistique

Irina Nesterenko, Stéphane Rauzy. On the use of probabilistic grammars in speech annotation and segmentation tasks. Speech and Computer, Oct 2007, Moscow, Russia. pp.1-7. ⟨hal-00244492⟩