Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic Cues

In this article the authors investigated and presented the experiments on the sentence boundaries annotation from Polish speech using acoustic cues as a source of information. The main result of the investigation is an algorithm for detection of the syntactic boundaries appearing in the places of pu...

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Main Authors: Magdalena IGRAS, Bartosz ZIÓŁKO
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences 2016-01-01
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Online Access:https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1679
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description In this article the authors investigated and presented the experiments on the sentence boundaries annotation from Polish speech using acoustic cues as a source of information. The main result of the investigation is an algorithm for detection of the syntactic boundaries appearing in the places of punctuation marks. In the first stage, the algorithm detects pauses and divides a speech signal into segments. In the second stage, it verifies the configuration of acoustic features and puts hypotheses of the positions of punctuation marks. Classification is performed with parameters describing phone duration and energy, speaking rate, fundamental frequency contours and frequency bands. The best results were achieved for Naive Bayes classifier. The efficiency of the algorithm is 52% precision and 98% recall. Another significant outcome of the research is statistical models of acoustic cues correlated with punctuation in spoken Polish.
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spelling doaj-art-94b2c37a091a45e5b19e314e8611da2c2025-08-20T03:11:52ZengInstitute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of SciencesArchives of Acoustics0137-50752300-262X2016-01-0141210.1515/aoa-2016-0023Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic CuesMagdalena IGRAS0Bartosz ZIÓŁKO1AGH University of Science and Technology in KrakowAGH University of Science and Technology in KrakowIn this article the authors investigated and presented the experiments on the sentence boundaries annotation from Polish speech using acoustic cues as a source of information. The main result of the investigation is an algorithm for detection of the syntactic boundaries appearing in the places of punctuation marks. In the first stage, the algorithm detects pauses and divides a speech signal into segments. In the second stage, it verifies the configuration of acoustic features and puts hypotheses of the positions of punctuation marks. Classification is performed with parameters describing phone duration and energy, speaking rate, fundamental frequency contours and frequency bands. The best results were achieved for Naive Bayes classifier. The efficiency of the algorithm is 52% precision and 98% recall. Another significant outcome of the research is statistical models of acoustic cues correlated with punctuation in spoken Polish.https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1679punctuationsentence boundaryspoken languageprosodyPolish
spellingShingle Magdalena IGRAS
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Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic Cues
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punctuation
sentence boundary
spoken language
prosody
Polish
title Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic Cues
title_full Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic Cues
title_fullStr Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic Cues
title_full_unstemmed Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic Cues
title_short Detection of Sentence Boundaries in Polish Based on Acoustic Cues
title_sort detection of sentence boundaries in polish based on acoustic cues
topic punctuation
sentence boundary
spoken language
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Polish
url https://acoustics.ippt.pan.pl/index.php/aa/article/view/1679
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