Unsupervised Syntactic Chunking with Acoustic Cues: Computational Models for Prosodic Bootstrapping.
CMCL '11: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics(2011)
摘要
Learning to group words into phrases without supervision is a hard task for NLP systems, but infants routinely accomplish it. We hypothesize that infants use acoustic cues to prosody, which NLP systems typically ignore. To evaluate the utility of prosodic information for phrase discovery, we present an HMM-based unsupervised chunker that learns from only transcribed words and raw acoustic correlates to prosody. Unlike previous work on unsupervised parsing and chunking, we use neither gold standard part-of-speech tags nor punctuation in the input. Evaluated on the Switchboard corpus, our model outperforms several baselines that exploit either lexical or prosodic information alone, and, despite producing a flat structure, performs competitively with a state-of-the-art unsupervised lexicalized parser, with a substantial advantage in precision. Our results support the hypothesis that acoustic-prosodic cues provide useful evidence about syntactic phrases for language-learning infants.
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NLP system,prosodic information,HMM-based unsupervised chunker,state-of-the-art unsupervised lexicalized parser,unsupervised parsing,acoustic cue,raw acoustic correlate,Switchboard corpus,acoustic-prosodic cue,flat structure,Unsupervised syntactic,computational model,prosodic bootstrapping
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