Macrosyntactic Segmenters of a French Spoken Corpus

Ilaine Wang, Sylvain Kahane, Isabelle Tellier


Abstract
The aim of this paper is to describe an automated process to segment spoken French transcribed data into macrosyntactic units. While sentences are delimited by punctuation marks for written data, there is no obvious hint nor limit to major units for speech. As a reference, we used the manual annotation of macrosyntactic units based on illocutionary as well as syntactic criteria and developed for the Rhapsodie corpus, a 33.000 words prosodic and syntactic treebank. Our segmenters were built using machine learning methods as supervised classifiers : segmentation is about identifying the boundaries of units, which amounts to classifying each interword space. We trained six different models on Rhapsodie using different sets of features, including prosodic and morphosyntactic cues, on the assumption that their combination would be relevant for the task. Both types of cues could be resulting either from manual annotation/correction or from fully automated processes, which comparison might help determine the cost of manual effort, especially for the 3M words of spoken French of the Orfeo project those experiments are contributing to.
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L14-1681
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
Year:
2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3891–3896
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/889_Paper.pdf
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Ilaine Wang, Sylvain Kahane, and Isabelle Tellier. 2014. Macrosyntactic Segmenters of a French Spoken Corpus. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3891–3896, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Macrosyntactic Segmenters of a French Spoken Corpus (Wang et al., LREC 2014)
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