Special Topic: Prosody and Information and Dialogue Structure
Required Readings (for all students)
- N. G. Ward, D. Marco and O. Fuentes, Which Prosodic Features Matter Most for Pragmatics?, ICASSP 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hyderabad, India, 2025, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10889382.
Required Readings(for presenter(s) and rapporteur(s))
- Christine H. Nakatani, Jennifer Chu-Carroll Using dialogue representations for concept-to-speech generation in Proceedings of the ANLP-NAACL 2000 Workshop on Conversational Systems Pages 48-53
- Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová, Kepa Joseba Rodríguez, Stina Ericsson, Elena Karagjosova, Producing Contextually Appropriate Intonation is an Information-State Based Dialogue System, EACL 2003: 227-234
- Sasha Calhoun, Malvina Nissim, Mark Steedman and Jason Brenier, A Framework for Annotating Information Structure in Discourse,in Proceedings of the Workshop on Frontiers in Corpus Annotation II: Pie in the Sky (ACL 2005)
- Ward, Nigel G., Alejandro Vega, and Timo Baumann. Prosodic and temporal features for language modeling for dialog.Speech Communication 54.2 (2012): 161-174.
- Domínguez, Mónica, Mireia Farrús, and Leo Wanner. The Information Structure–prosody interface in text-to-speech technologies. An empirical perspective. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 18.2 (2022): 419-445.
Other Readings
- Nakajima, Shin’ya, and James F. Allen. A study on prosody and discourse structure in cooperative dialogues.Phonetica 50.3 (1993): 197-210.
- Justine Cassell, Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Timothy Bickmore, BEAT: the Behavior Expression Animation Toolkit in the Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2001
- Elizabeth Shriberg and Andreas Stolcke, Prosody modeling for automatic speech recognition and understanding in Proc. Workshop on Mathematical Foundations of Natural Language Modeling,2002
- Mushin, I., Stirling, L., Fletcher, J., & Wales, R. (2003). Discourse structure, grounding, and prosody in task-oriented dialogue Discourse Processes, 35(1), 1-31.
- Nigel Ward Pragmatic Functions of Prosodic Features in Non-Lexical Utterances Speech Prosody 2004, pp 325-328.
- Huang, G., Li, A., Zhang, S., & Zhang, L. Prosody and Dialogue Act: A Perceptual Study on Chinese Interrogatives. 2021 12th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing (ISCSLP). IEEE, 2021.