Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse
Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 636-638.
Abstract
It is increasingly recognized in Natural Language Processing that intonation makes a significant contribution to the communication of discourse structure. However, the correspondence between particular intonational features and specific aspects of discourse structure is only beginning to be understood. In this paper, we show how tune, phrasing, accent, and pitch range can combine to convey information about the nature of speaker intentions and about the relationship among those intentions. Our fmdings reveal new sources of linguistic information for research in plan inference and discourse understanding, and allow us to make more sophisticated use of intonational variation in synthetic speech.
@inproceedings{ijcai1987p126,
title = {Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse},
author = {Hirschberg, Julia and Litman, Diane J. and Pierrehumbert, Janet B. and Ward, G.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-87}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {John McDermott},
pages = {636--638},
year = {1987},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/126},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse AU - Hirschberg, Julia AU - Litman, Diane J. AU - Pierrehumbert, Janet B. AU - Ward, G. T2 - Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-87 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1987 SP - 636 EP - 638 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/126 ER -Copied
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