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Required Readings

  1. Prosody modeling for automatic speech recognition and understanding in Proc. Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Natural Language Modeling, Elizabeth Shriberg and Andreas Stolcke, 2002
  2. The prosody of backchannels in American English S. Benus, A. Gravano, J. Hirschberg, in Proceedings of ICPhS 2007, pages 1065-1068. Saarbrücken, Germany, August 2007.

Other Readings
  1. Is the speaker done yet? Faster and more accurate end-of-utterance detection using prosody Luciana Ferrer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, in Proc. ICSLP, 2002
  2. Prosodic features which cue back-channel responses in English and Japanese Nigel Ward and Wataru Tsukahara, Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 2000, 1177-1207.
  3. Prosody-Based Automatic Detection of Annoyance and Frustration in Human-Computer Dialog Jeremy Ang,Rajdip Dhillon,Ashley Krupski,Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, in Proc. ICSLP 2002
  4. Pragmatic Functions of Prosodic Features in Non-Lexical Utterances Nigel Ward, Speech Prosody 2004, pp 325-328.