Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse
Abstract
It is increasingly recognized in Natural Language Processing that intonation makes a significant contribution to the commun-ication of discourse structure. However, the correspondence between particular intonational features and specific aspects of discourse structure is only beginning to be understood. In this paper, we show how tune, phrasing, accent, and pitch range can combine to convey information about the nature of speaker intentions and about the relationship among those intentions. Our findings reveal new sources of linguistic information for research in plan inference and discourse understanding, and allow us to make more sophisticated use of intonational varia-tion in synthetic speech. 1.
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Hirschberg et al. "Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987.Markdown
[Hirschberg et al. "Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1987/hirschberg1987ijcai-intonation/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{hirschberg1987ijcai-intonation,
title = {{Intonation and the Intentional Structure of Discourse}},
author = {Hirschberg, Julia and Litman, Diane J. and Pierrehumbert, Janet B. and Ward, G.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1987},
pages = {636-639},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1987/hirschberg1987ijcai-intonation/}
}