Focus to emphasize tone structures for prosodic analysis in spoken language generation

Lalita Narupiyakul

doi:10.3115/1557856.1557871

Focus to emphasize tone structures for prosodic analysis in spoken language generation

Lalita Narupiyakul

Dalhousie University

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We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced by speaker's intention. The relationship between speech acts and focus information is used to define which parts of the sentence serve as the focus parts. We propose the Focus to Emphasize Tones (FET) structure to analyze the focus components. We also design the FET grammar to analyze the intonation patterns and produce tone marks as a result of our analysis. We present a proof-of-the-concept working example to validate our proposal. More comprehensive evaluations are part of our current work.

Original language	English
Pages	67-72
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3115/1557856.1557871
Publication status	Published - 2006
Externally published	Yes
Event	COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop. SRW 2006 at the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006 - Sydney, Australia Duration: 17 Jul 2006 → 18 Jul 2006

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Conference	COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop. SRW 2006 at the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	17/07/06 → 18/07/06

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Narupiyakul, L. (2006). Focus to emphasize tone structures for prosodic analysis in spoken language generation. 67-72. Paper presented at COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop. SRW 2006 at the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia. https://doi.org/10.3115/1557856.1557871

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Narupiyakul, L 2006, 'Focus to emphasize tone structures for prosodic analysis in spoken language generation', Paper presented at COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop. SRW 2006 at the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia, 17/07/06 - 18/07/06 pp. 67-72. https://doi.org/10.3115/1557856.1557871

Focus to emphasize tone structures for prosodic analysis in spoken language generation. / Narupiyakul, Lalita.
2006. 67-72 Paper presented at COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop. SRW 2006 at the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia.

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Narupiyakul L. Focus to emphasize tone structures for prosodic analysis in spoken language generation. 2006. Paper presented at COLING/ACL 2006 Student Research Workshop. SRW 2006 at the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, COLING/ACL 2006, Sydney, Australia. doi: 10.3115/1557856.1557871

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