Preliminaries to a Theory of Speech Disfluencies

By Elizabeth Shriberg. 1994

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Speech recognition in adverse conditions: A review (2012, background): “Disfluencies affect segment duration, intonation, voice quality, and coarticulation patterns (Shriberg, 1994).”
Second language fluency: speaking style or proficiency? Correcting measures of second language fluency for first language behavior (2015, background): “However, differences between native speakers with respect to temporal aspects of speech have also been documented (e.g., Goldman-Eisler, 1968; Shriberg, 1994).”
The Penn Treebank: An Overview (2003, methodology): “The disfluency annotation system (based on Shriberg (1994)) distinguishes complete utterances from incomplete ones, labels a range of non-sentence elements such as fillers, and annotates restarts.”
Parsing Speech: a Neural Approach to Integrating Lexical and Acoustic-Prosodic Information (2017, background): “Prosodic cues also signal disfluencies by marking the interruption point (Shriberg, 1994).”
Using uh and um in spontaneous speaking. (2002, unknown): “Fillers from the SW corpus lead to similar conclusions (see also Shriberg, 1994; Swerts, 1998).”
Conversational Agents and Natural Language Interaction: Techniques and Effective Practices (2011, background): “On top of that, long and complex utterances typically exhibit a higher rate of disfluencies (Shriberg, 1994), such as hesitations, repairs, phrase fragments and filled pauses, which are hard to cope with in a rule based grammar.”
Linguistic skills and speaking fluency in a second language (2012, background): “Some speak faster than others, some use more filled pauses such as uhs and uhms than others, some use more silent pauses than others, and some use longer silent pauses than others (e.g., Clark & Fox Tree, 2002; Goldman-Eisler, 1968; Shriberg, 1994).”
Disfl-QA: A Benchmark Dataset for Understanding Disfluencies in Question Answering (2021, background): “Together these phenomena are referred to as disﬂu-encies (Shriberg, 1994).”