Extraction and comparison of various prosodic feature sets on sentence segmentation task for Turkish Broadcast News data

Abstract

In this work, prosodic features of the Turkish Broadcast News (BN) data are extracted using an open source prosodic feature extraction tool based on Praat. The profiles and effectiveness of these features are also investigated for the sentence segmentation task on the Turkish BN data. We not only used some combinations of the feature sets but also collected some of them in one prosodic feature model in order to achieve one of the best performance. The results of the experiments show that some combinations of the prosodic feature sets are very useful for the automatic sentence segmentation task on the Turkish BN data.