4 papers
Assessing the Use of Prosody in Constituency Parsing of Imperfect Transcripts
Trang Tran, Mari Ostendorf
This work explores constituency parsing on automatically recognized transcripts of conversational speech. The neural parser is based on a sentence encoder that leverages word vecto…
Analysis of Disfluency in Children's Speech
Trang Tran, Morgan Tinkler, Gary Yeung +2
Disfluencies are prevalent in spontaneous speech, as shown in many studies of adult speech. Less is understood about children's speech, especially in pre-school children who are st…
On the Role of Style in Parsing Speech with Neural Models
Trang Tran, Jiahong Yuan, Yang Liu +1
The differences in written text and conversational speech are substantial; previous parsers trained on treebanked text have given very poor results on spontaneous speech. For spoke…
Disfluencies and Human Speech Transcription Errors
Vicky Zayats, Trang Tran, Richard Wright +2
This paper explores contexts associated with errors in transcrip-tion of spontaneous speech, shedding light on human perceptionof disfluencies and other conversational speech pheno…