Linguistic patterns in spontaneous speech

Overview of this volume
Shu-Chuan Tseng
I. Spontaneity: definition and standard

Can there be Standards for Spontaneous Speech? Towards an Ontology for Speech Resource Exploitation
Dafydd Gibbon
II. Variation: allophones and registers

Analysis of Language Variation Using a Large-Scale Corpus of Spontaneous Speech
Kikuo Maekawa
Situational Characteristics and Register Variation: A Case Study of the Particle suo in Mandarin Chinese
Jen Ting
Voice Quality Dependent Speech Recognition
Tae-Jin Yoon, Xiaodan Zhuang, Jennifer Cole and Mark Hasegawa-Johnson
III. Prosody: feature and processing

Prosodic Hierarchy as an Organizing Framework for the Sources of Context in Phone-Based and Articulatory-Feature-Based Speech Recognition
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Jennifer Cole, Ken Chen, Partha Lal, Amit Juneja, Tae-Jin Yoon, Sarah Borys and Xiaodan Zhuang
Prosodic Features of Spontaneous Utterance-initial Phrases in Bernese and Valais Swiss German
Adrian Leemann and Beat Siebenhaar
Linguistic Patterns Detected Through a Prosodic Segmentation in Spontaneous Taiwan Mandarin Speech
Yi-Fen Liu and Shu-Chuan Tseng
IV. Disfluency: pattern and detection

Prolongation of Clause-initial Mono-word Phrases in Japanese
Yasuharu Den
Spontaneous Mandarin Speech Recognition with Disfluencies Detected by Latent Prosodic Modeling (LPM)
Che-Kuang Lin, Shu-Chuan Tseng and Lin-Shan Lee
V. Spoken dialogue: communication and recognition

Prosodic Similarities of Dialog Act Boundaries Across Speaking Styles
Elizabeth Shriberg, Benoit Favre, James Fung, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, and Sébastien Cuendet
Exploring Silence Application and Politeness Strategies in Interpersonal Business Communication
Annie Wenhui Yang
Recognizing Local Dialogue Structures and Dialogue Acts
Kenji Takano and Akira Shimazu