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A formal prosody description framework is introduced together with its relation to language semantics and NLP. The framework incorporates deep prosodic structures based on a generative grammar of abstract prosodic functionally involved units. This grammar creates for each sentence a structure of immediate prosodic constituents in the form of a tree. A speech corpus manually annotated by such prosodic structures is presented and its quantitative characteristics are discussed.
This research was supported by Grant Agency of Czech Republic, project No. GAČR 102/05/0278.
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Romportl, J., Matoušek, J. (2005). Formal Prosodic Structures and Their Application in NLP. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P., Pavelka, T. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3658. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11551874_48
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