TY - GEN
T1 - Prosody and the Resolution of Pronominal Anaphora
AU - Wolters, Maria
AU - Byron, Donna K.
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - In this paper, we investigate the acoustic prosodic marking of demonstrative and personal pronouns in task-oriented dialog. Although it has been hypothesized that acoustic marking affects pronoun resolution, we find that the prosodic information extracted from the data is not sufficient to predict antecedent type reliably. Inter-speaker variation accounts for much of the prosodic variation that we find in our data. We conclude that prosodic cues should be handled with care in robust, speaker-independent dialog systems.
AB - In this paper, we investigate the acoustic prosodic marking of demonstrative and personal pronouns in task-oriented dialog. Although it has been hypothesized that acoustic marking affects pronoun resolution, we find that the prosodic information extracted from the data is not sufficient to predict antecedent type reliably. Inter-speaker variation accounts for much of the prosodic variation that we find in our data. We conclude that prosodic cues should be handled with care in robust, speaker-independent dialog systems.
U2 - 10.3115/992730.992779
DO - 10.3115/992730.992779
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - COLING '00
SP - 919
EP - 925
BT - Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computational Linguistics - Volume 2
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics
CY - Stroudsburg, PA, USA
ER -