Intonational Correlates of Discourse Structures

格罗斯，芭芭拉哈佛大学235,052 - 24美元。（与跨学科活动联合资助-总奖金240,752美元）语篇结构的语调相关性这是1993财年启动的标准奖项的第二部分资金，作为一项浮动拨款，用于对结构语篇分析的Grosz-Sidner理论的实证验证进行研究。以及语调指示语与话语整体结构和局部结构的关系。研究的主题是一个多说话者语料库（以确保结果的一般性和实验可以被复制）的话语从教学和叙事体裁；主观上对语料库的结构特征进行标注，利用信号分析方法独立客观地对语料库的语调特征进行标注，目的是建立两种标注之间的相关性。一个积极的、完善的相关性将允许在算法中使用那些指示语调变化的话语特征，这些特征会在质量较高的普通合成语音中产生相应的语调变化。这个项目的结果应该建立语篇结构和语篇语音决定的信号特征之间的关系。

IRI-9443461 Grosz, Barbara Harvard University $235,052 - 24 mos. (Jointly funded with Cross Disciplinary Activities - Total Award $240,752) Intonational Correlates of Discourse Structures This is the second part funding of a standard award initiated in FY93 and processed as a swing grant to conduct research on the empirical verification of the Grosz-Sidner theory of structural discourse analysis, and on the correlation of intonational indicators with both global and local structures of discourse. The subject of study is a multiple speaker corpus (to assure generality of results and experiments that can be replicated) of discourse from instructional and narrative genres; the corpus is annotated subjectively for structural characteristics and, independently and objectively, for intonational features using signal analysis methods, with the purpose of establishing the correlation between the two taggings. A positive, well-established, correlation would allow the use of those discourse features indicating intonational variations in algorithms that produce corresponding intonational variations in synthesized speech of quality higher ordinary. The results of this project should establish the relationship between discourse structures and the phonetically determined signal features of discourse.