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Although English prosodic break detection and Mandarin prosodic break detection have been studied extensively, there is seldom works on exploring the comparison between Mandarin prosodic break detection and English prosodic break detection. In this paper, we compare the Mandarin and the English break detection based on Mandarin prosodic annotation corpus—ASCCD and English prosodic annotation corpus—Boston University Radio News Corpus. We analyze the similarity and the difference between Mandarin prosodic break detection and English prosodic break detection, investigate the generalized performance of different features between different languages, and get some significative conclusions.
Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province under Grant No.ZR2011FQ024 and the Scientific Research Foundation for Doctor, Shandong University of Finance and Economics.
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Ni, CJ., Zhang, AY. (2012). The Comparison between Mandarin Break Detection and English Break Detection. In: Liu, CL., Zhang, C., Wang, L. (eds) Pattern Recognition. CCPR 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 321. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33506-8_73
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