Syntactic Segmentation of Spontaneous Speech: Psychological and Cognitive Aspects

• Published in: Speech and Computer Vol. 11658; pp. 459 - 470
• Main Authors: Stepikhov, Anton, Loukina, Anastassia, Stepikhova, Natella
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland Springer International Publishing AG 01.01.2019; Springer International Publishing
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Annotation; Dominant hemisphere; Lateral asymmetry; Personality; Russian; Segmentation; Sentence boundary detection; Spontaneous speech; Working memory capacity

The paper examines the properties of expert manual annotation of Russian spontaneous speech. While it is well known that experts exhibit variability in the ways they mark transcripted speech, our aim is to arrive at the reasons behind such variability. In this study we focus on the annotator’s psych...