Instruction Task for Malay Phrase Boundary Annotation

  • Authors

    • Haslizatul Mohamed Hanum
    • Nur Atiqah Sia Abdullah
    • Zainab Abu Bakar
    2018-08-13
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.15.17517
  • prosody, prosodic phrase, agreement, speech boundaries.

  • Abstract

    The paper presents a refined instruction task to assist evaluation of prosodic phrase (PPh) boundaries by naive listeners. The results from the perceptual experiments were compared to the boundaries produced by online automatic tagger. The Kappa evaluation shows the average of 85% on inter-rater agreement. More than 60% of the boundaries which are detected by the automatic tagger matched the reference boundaries, showing that the refined instruction task can be used to evaluate perception on phrase boundaries on continuous speech.

     

     

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  • How to Cite

    Mohamed Hanum, H., Atiqah Sia Abdullah, N., & Abu Bakar, Z. (2018). Instruction Task for Malay Phrase Boundary Annotation. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(3.15), 137-140. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i3.15.17517

    Received date: 2018-08-14

    Accepted date: 2018-08-14

    Published date: 2018-08-13