04170nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-46680-9 DE-He213 20251030110914.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240104s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031466809 978-3-031-46680-9 10.1007/978-3-031-46680-9 doi TK5102.9 TJF bicssc UYS bicssc TEC067000 bisacsh TJF thema UYS thema Gwóźdź, Maja. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 69224 Acoustic Cues in the Disambiguation of Polysemous Strings [electronic resource] / by Maja Gwóźdź. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIV, 99 p. 24 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing, 1932-1678 Introduction -- Ambiguity -- Compounds -- Idioms -- Relative clauses -- Quotations -- Methods -- The experiment -- The software -- Results -- Idioms -- Relative clauses -- Quotations -- The software -- Discussion -- Idioms -- Relative clauses -- Quotations -- The software -- Conclusion. This book provides an analysis of acoustic features of polysemous strings and an implementation of a speech disambiguation program based on the phonetic information. Throughout the book, the term ‘polysemous string’ refers to idioms with plausible literal interpretations, restrictive and non–restrictive relative clauses, and the same expressions used as quotations and appearing in a non–quotational context. The author explains how, typically, context is sufficient to determine the intended meaning. But there is enough evidence in psycholinguistic and phonetic literature to suspect that these superficially identical strings exhibit different acoustic features. In the experiment presented in the book, the participants were asked to read short excerpts containing corresponding elements of polysemous strings placed in the same intonational position. The acoustic analyses of ditropic pairs and subsequent statistical tests revealed that there is almost no difference in the duration, pitch, or intensity in literal and figurative interpretations. However, the analysis of relative clauses and quotations demonstrated that speakers are more likely to use acoustic cues to differentiate between the two possible readings. The book argues that the acoustic analysis of polysemous phrases could be successfully implemented in designing automatic speech recognition systems in order to improve their performance in disambiguating polysemous phrases. Analyzes acoustic features of polysemous strings and an implementation of a speech disambiguation program Includes evidence that superficially identical strings exhibit different acoustic features Argues that acoustic analysis of polysemous phrases can be successfully implemented in automatic speech recognition. Signal processing. Natural language processing (Computer science). 65131 Computational linguistics. Acoustical engineering. 66281 Signal, Speech and Image Processing. Natural Language Processing (NLP). 66164 Computational Linguistics. Engineering Acoustics. 66283 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031466793 Printed edition: 9783031466816 Printed edition: 9783031466823 Synthesis Lectures on Speech and Audio Processing, 1932-1678 69225 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46680-9 ZDB-2-SXSC 57089 57089