Date of Award
2020-01-01
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Computer Science
Advisor(s)
Nigel Ward
Abstract
Identifying location mentions in speech is important for many information retrieval and information extraction tasks; here I explore the use of prosody for location spotting. While previous work has explored the use of prosody for spotting named entities, including locations, the specific value of prosody for finding locations in spontaneous speech has not been measured. Using the Switchboard corpus and LSTM modeling I obtain results indicating that prosody is useful in spotting location mentions. Further, I identify specific prosodic
features that tend to mark locations in American English.
Language
en
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Copyright Date
2020-05
File Size
34 pages
File Format
application/pdf
Rights Holder
Gerardo Cervantes
Recommended Citation
Cervantes, Gerardo, "Using Prosody to Spot Location Mentions" (2020). Open Access Theses & Dissertations. 2946.
https://scholarworks.utep.edu/open_etd/2946