Prosody based Automatic Classification of the Uses of French ‘Oui’ as Convinced or Unconvinced Uses

Abdenour Hacine-Gharbi, Mélanie Petit, Philippe Ravier, François Némo

2015

Abstract

When working with oral speech, the issue of natural meaning processing can be improved using easily available prosodic information. Only recently, semanticists have started to consider that the prosodic features could play a key role in the interpretation and classification of different word’s uses. In this work, we propose a prosodic based automatic system that allows to classify the French word ‘oui’ into one of the classes ‘conviction’ or ‘lack of conviction’. To that aim, a questionnaire inspired from opinion polls has been created and permitted to obtain 118 occurrences for both classes of ‘oui’. Combined with feature selection procedure, the best classification rates decreases from 85.45% (speaker dependent mode) to 79.25% (speaker independent mode which is closer to an application). Interestingly, we also introduce the ‘shuttle’ principle that seeks to validate the semantic interpretation thanks to prosodic analysis.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hacine-Gharbi A., Petit M., Ravier P. and Némo F. (2015). Prosody based Automatic Classification of the Uses of French ‘Oui’ as Convinced or Unconvinced Uses . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM, ISBN 978-989-758-077-2, pages 349-354. DOI: 10.5220/0005293103490354

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icpram15,
author={Abdenour Hacine-Gharbi and Mélanie Petit and Philippe Ravier and François Némo},
title={Prosody based Automatic Classification of the Uses of French ‘Oui’ as Convinced or Unconvinced Uses},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,},
year={2015},
pages={349-354},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005293103490354},
isbn={978-989-758-077-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - Volume 2: ICPRAM,
TI - Prosody based Automatic Classification of the Uses of French ‘Oui’ as Convinced or Unconvinced Uses
SN - 978-989-758-077-2
AU - Hacine-Gharbi A.
AU - Petit M.
AU - Ravier P.
AU - Némo F.
PY - 2015
SP - 349
EP - 354
DO - 10.5220/0005293103490354