Computational extraction of lexico-grammatical information for generation of Swedish intonation
Merle A. Horne, Marcus Filipsson · 1994
This article presents a discussion of a number of algorithms being developed which will enable the generation of prosodic structure for Swedish restricted texts. These algorithms, including a word-class tagger, a complex-word identifier and a prosodic parser form part of a linguistic preprocessor to a text-to-speech system for generation of intonation. PROSODIC STRUCTURE One of the goals of current research in text-to-speech systems is to improve the quality of intonation by developing algorithms for preprocessing texts in order to extract grammatical and discourse information necessary for the generation of appropriate prosodic patterns. The present article will describe the work we are currently carrying out aimed at using the information on coreferentiality obtained from the referent tracking algorithm previously developed (see Horne et al. 1993) together with further information on lexico-syntactic category designation to group words together into a hierarchy of prosodic constitu...