The system was evaluated on the speaker-independent (SI) portion of DARPA's February 1992 "Dry-Run" WSJ0 test and achieved 17.1% word error without verbalized punctuation (NVP) and 16.6% error with verbalized punctuation (VP). In addition, we increased the amount of training data and reduced the VP error rate to 12.9%. This SI error rate (with a larger amount of training data) equalled the best...

Twenty-three kindergarten and first grade children were asked to articulate the meaning and the need for punctuation marks in a list of numerals showing prices for a list of items. Despite not having been schooled yet formally on the use and roles of numerical punctuation, many children gave similar explanations regarding the purpose of punctuation marks in numerals, including: to separate, to ...

Automatic punctuation of speech is important to make speechto-text output more readable and to facilitate downstream language processing. This paper describes the development of an automatic punctuation system for French and English. The punctuation model uses both textual information and acoustic (prosodic) information and is based on adaptive boosting. The system is evaluated on a challenging...

In spoken language translation (SLT), finding proper segmentation and reconstructing punctuation marks are not only significant but also challenging tasks. In this paper we present our recent work on speech translation quality analysis for German-English by improving sentence segmentation and punctuation. From oracle experiments, we show an upper bound of translation quality if we had human-gen...

Punctuation prediction is an important task in Spoken Language Translation. The output of speech recognition systems does not typically contain punctuation marks. In this paper we analyze different methods for punctuation prediction and show improvements in the quality of the final translation output. In our experiments we compare the different approaches and show improvements of up to 0.8 BLEU...

Both rhetorical structure and punctuation have been helpful in discourse processing. Based on a corpus annotation project, this paper reports the discursive usage of 6 Chinese punctuation marks in news commentary texts: Colon, Dash, Ellipsis, Exclamation Mark, Question Mark, and Semicolon. The rhetorical patterns of these marks are compared against patterns around cue phrases in general. Result...

To enhance readability and usability of speech recognition results, automatic punctuation is an essential process. In this paper, we address automatic comma prediction based on conditional random fields (CRF) using lexical, syntactic and pause information. Since there is large disagreement in comma insertion between humans, we model individual tendencies of punctuation using annotations given b...