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Modelling prosodic structure using Artificial Neural Networks

Computation and Language 2017-06-16 v2

Abstract

The ability to accurately perceive whether a speaker is asking a question or is making a statement is crucial for any successful interaction. However, learning and classifying tonal patterns has been a challenging task for automatic speech recognition and for models of tonal representation, as tonal contours are characterized by significant variation. This paper provides a classification model of Cypriot Greek questions and statements. We evaluate two state-of-the-art network architectures: a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network and a convolutional network (ConvNet). The ConvNet outperforms the LSTM in the classification task and exhibited an excellent performance with 95% classification accuracy.

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@article{arxiv.1706.03952,
  title  = {Modelling prosodic structure using Artificial Neural Networks},
  author = {Jean-Philippe Bernardy and Charalambos Themistocleous},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03952},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, Experimental linguistics 2017

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