This paper presents a two-step method of automatic prosodic boundary detection using both textual and acoustic features. Firstly, we predict possible boundary positions using textual features; secondly, we detect the actual boundaries at the predicted positions using acoustic features. For evaluation of the algorithms we use a 26-h subcorpus of CORPRES, a prosodically annotated corpus of Russian read speech. We have also conducted two independent experiments using acoustic features and textual features separately. Acoustic features alone enable to achieve the F1 measure of 0.85, precision of 0.94, recall of 0.78. Textual features alone work with the F1 measure of 0.84, precision of 0.84, recall of 0.83. The proposed two-step approach combining the two groups of features yields the efficiency of 0.90, recall of 0.85 and precision of 0.99. It preserves the high recall provided by textual information and the high precision achieved using acoustic information. This is the best published result for Russian. © Spri
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages68-79
ISBN (Print)978-331945924-0
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventInternational Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing - Pilsen, Czech Republic
Duration: 11 Oct 201612 Oct 2016
Conference number: 4
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Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing
Abbreviated titleSLSP 2016
Country/TerritoryCzech Republic
CityPilsen
Period11/10/1612/10/16
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