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Prosody prediction for arabic via the open-source boundary-annotated qur’an corpus
M. S. Sawalha, C. Brierley, E. Atwell
Journal of Speech Sciences · 2(2), 175-191 · 2012
What the paper examines
The authors develop a boundary-annotated Arabic text resource using recitation marks in the Qur’an and compare statistical approaches to predicting phrase boundaries. The paper connects linguistic annotation with a specific computational prediction task.
Reading it in context
The corpus represents a particular recitation tradition and task. Its results should be read in that setting rather than treated as a benchmark for all Arabic speech or for pronunciation assessment.
A question to read with
How do the annotation choices define what a predicted boundary means?
Citation
M. S. Sawalha, C. Brierley, E. Atwell (2012). Prosody prediction for arabic via the open-source boundary-annotated qur’an corpus. Journal of Speech Sciences, 2(2), 175-191. https://doi.org/10.20396/joss.v2i2.15038
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