Disfluencies
in SWITCHBOARD
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Elizabeth Shriberg
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| Abstract |
| Disfluencies ('um', repeats, self-repairs) are prevalent in
spontaneous speech, and are relevant to both human speech communication and speech
processing by machine. Although disfluencies have commonly been viewed as noisy events,
results from a large descriptive study indicate that disfluencies show regularities in a
number of dimensions [9]. This paper reports selected results on Switchboard and two
comparison corpora of spontaneous speech. Results illustrate the systematic distribution
of disfluencies, and highlight differences as well as universals across corpora and
speakers. |
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| Shriberg,
E. 1996 Disfluencies in SWITCHBOARD. In Proceedings of the International
Conference on Spoken Language Processing Vol. Addendum, 11-14. Philadelphia, PA, 3-6
October. |
