Search for dissertations about: "Spoken language annotation"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Spoken language annotation.

  2. 1. Modelling Phone-Level Pronunciation in Discourse Context

    Author : Per-Anders Jande; Rolf Carlson; Merle Horne; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Pronunciation modelling; Pronunciation variation; Discourse-context; Phone-level variation; Central standard Swedish; Spoken language annotation; Data-driven methods; Machine learning; Decision trees; Pronunciation lexicon development; Machine-readable lexicon; Phonology; Discourse; Lexicon; Language technology; Språkteknologi;

    Abstract : Analytic knowledge about the systematic variation in a language has an important place in the description of the language. Such knowledge is interesting e.g. in the language teaching domain, as a background for various types of linguistic studies, and in the development of more dynamic speech technology applications. READ MORE

  4. 2. Information state based speech recognition

    Author : Rebecca Jonson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; dialogue systems; speech recognition; language modelling; dialogue move; dialogue context; ASR; higher level knowledge; linguistic knowledge; N-Best re-ranking; confidence scoring; confidence annotation; information state; ISU approach;

    Abstract : One of the pitfalls in spoken dialogue systems is the brittleness of automatic speech recognition (ASR). ASR systems often misrecognize user input and they are unreliable when it comes to judging their own performance. READ MORE

  5. 3. Modality in Kazakh as spoken in China

    Author : Aynur Abish; Eva Agnes Csato Johanson; Lars Johanson; László Károly; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Turkic languages; Kazakh; modality; Turkiska språk; Turkic languages;

    Abstract : This is a comprehensive study on expressions of modality in one of the largest Turkic languages, Kazakh, as it is spoken in China. Kazakh is the official language of the Republic of Kazakhstan and is furthermore spoken by about one and a half million people in China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and in Aksai Kazakh Autonomous County in Gansu Province. READ MORE