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Towards Modelling Coherence in Spoken Discourse

12/31/2020
by   Rajaswa Patil, et al.
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While there has been significant progress towards modelling coherence in written discourse, the work in modelling spoken discourse coherence has been quite limited. Unlike the coherence in text, coherence in spoken discourse is also dependent on the prosodic and acoustic patterns in speech. In this paper, we model coherence in spoken discourse with audio-based coherence models. We perform experiments with four coherence-related tasks with spoken discourses. In our experiments, we evaluate machine-generated speech against the speech delivered by expert human speakers. We also compare the spoken discourses generated by human language learners of varying language proficiency levels. Our results show that incorporating the audio modality along with the text benefits the coherence models in performing downstream coherence related tasks with spoken discourses.

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