Assigning Phrase Breaks from Part-of-Speech Sequences

Alan W Black and Paul Taylor

Centre for Speech Technology Research
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
EDINBURGH EH1 1HN

Originally published in the Proceedings of the Eurospeech 1997, Rhodes, Greece

• Background
• Basic model
• Part of speech tagging
• Training Data
• Performance criteria
• Experiments and Results
  • Some simple algorithms
  • Tagset size
  • Ngram model size
  • Smoothing the models
• Comparisons with others
• Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References
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