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We propose a scheme to determine punctuation of the text produced by an automatic speech recognizer. We deal with the addition of commas based on the recognized text and we propose a full stop detection scheme using both – the textual and prosody information. We also propose an expanded scheme which utilizes enriched audio document information (e.g. speaker diarization, language detection etc.)...

This paper describes our effort on the task of edited region identification for parsing disfluent sentences in the Switchboard corpus. We focus our attention on exploring feature spaces and selecting good features and start with analyzing the distributions of the edited regions and their components in the targeted corpus. We explore new feature spaces of a partof-speech (POS) hierarchy and rela...

In the Masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible (HB), the cantillation marks function like a punctuation system that shows the division and subdivision of each verse, forming a tree structure which is similar to the prosodic tree in modern linguistics. However, in the Masoretic text, the structure is hidden in a complicated set of diacritic symbols and the rich information is accessible only to a few...

We envisage a novel computer tool for producing technical documentation, in which the author specifies the desired content and style, but the exact wording and layout i s determined by the system (including versions in languages the author need not know ); a prototype of such a system is being developed in the ICONOCLAST project. Amongs t other things, the systemmust adapt the wording of the ge...

An analysis of such a phenomenon written speech as the separation infinitive in sub-substantive position is proposed from point view syntax and punctuation. As material for study, microcorpus was used, compiled by complete selection texts Russian artistic prose second half 20th - beginning 21st centuries. The relevance study lies need to clarify punctuation codification subsubstantive separatio...

This work explores prosodic/acoustic cues for improving a baseline phone segmentation module. The baseline version is provided by a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system. An analysis of the baseline results revealed problems in word boundary detection, that we tried to solve by using postprocessing rules based on prosodic features (pitch, energy and duration). These rules achiev...

As most current query processing architectures are already pipelined, it seems logical to apply them to data streams. However, two classes of query operators are impractical for processing long or infinite data streams. Unbounded stateful operators maintain state with no upper bound in size and, so, run out of memory. Blocking operators read an entire input before emitting a single output and, ...

This paper shows results of recovering punctuation over speech transcriptions for a Portuguese broadcast news corpus. The approach is based on maximum entropy models and uses word, part-of-speech, time and speaker information. The contribution of each type of feature is analyzed individually. Separate results for each focus condition are given, making it possible to analyze the differences of p...