PROMINENCE VARIATION BEYOND GIVEN/NEW (2008)
Prominence variation is known to be determined in part by discourse factors, such as the givenness or newness of the discourse entity being realized to the discourse. However, few empirical studies...
Now You Hear It, Now You Don't: Empirical Studies Of Audio Browsing Behavior (2007)
Christine H. Nakatani, Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg
We present several studies that investigate how people use audio documents and uncover new principles for designing audio navigation technology. In particular, we report on an ethnographic study of...
David R. Traum, Christine H. Nakatani
This paper presents a novel two-level scheme for coding discourse structure in dialogue, which was created by the authors for the discourse structure subgroup of the 1998 DRI meeting on dialogue...
Constituent-based accent prediction (1998)
Near-perfect automatic accent assignment is at-tainable for citation-style speech, but better com-putational models are needed to predict accent in extended, spontaneous discourses. This paper...
All talk and all action: strategies for managing voicemail messages (1998)
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani
Voicemail is a pervasive technology, but we know little about how users manage voice messages in executing everyday work. We analyze server logs, user surveys and interviews to identify three...
Play it again: A study of the factors underlying speech browsing behavior (1998)
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani
Several recent UIs support access to recorded speech archives, but these have not yet been systematically evaluated. We describe a laboratory study of speech archive browsing using a GUI. We evaluate...
Steve Whittaker John, John Choi, Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani
Despite the recent growth and potential utility of speech archives, we currently lack tools for effective archival access. Previous research on search of textual archives has assumed that the system...
All Talk and All Action: Strategies for Managing Voicemail Messages (1998)
Steve Whittaker, Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani
Voicemail is a pervasive technology, but we know little about how users manage voice messages in executing everyday work. We analyze server logs, user surveys and interviews to identify three...
Play It Again: A Study of the Factors Underlying Speech Browsing Behavior (1998)
Steve Whittaker Julia, Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani
Several recent UIs support access to recorded speech archives, but these have not yet been systematically evaluated. We describe a laboratory study of speech archive browsing using a GUI. We evaluate...
Christine H. Nakatani, Barbara J. Grosz, David D. Ahn, Julia Hirschberg, Christine H. Nakatani, Barbara J. Grosz, ...
This guide contains instructions for segmenting discourse that are meant to be self-contained. Although based on a particular theory of discourse structure, they do not make reference in any way to...
Discourse Structure in Spoken Language: Studies on Speech Corpora (1995)
Christine H. Nakatani, Julia Hirschberg, Barbara J. Grosz
A better understanding of the intonational characteristics of spoken discourse may lead to new empirical techniques for identifying discourse structure from speech, as well as new algorithms for...
A Corpus-based study of repair cues in spontaneous speech
Christine H. Nakatani, Julia Hirschberg
this paper, acoustic and prosodic cues to such repairs are identified, based on an analysis of a corpus taken from the ARPA Air Travel Information System database, and methods are proposed for...