2 papers
cmp-lg1998
Identifying Discourse Markers in Spoken Dialog
Peter A. Heeman, Donna Byron, James F. Allen
In this paper, we present a method for identifying discourse marker usage in spontaneous speech based on machine learning. Discourse markers are denoted by special POS tags, and th…
cmp-lg1997
Speech Repairs, Intonational Boundaries and Discourse Markers: Modeling Speakers' Utterances in Spoken Dialog
Peter A. Heeman
In this thesis, we present a statistical language model for resolving speech repairs, intonational boundaries and discourse markers. Rather than finding the best word interpretatio…