ISCA Archive SSPR 2003
ISCA Archive SSPR 2003

Identification of "sentences" in spontaneous Japanese - detection and modification of clause boundaries

Katsuya Takanashi, Takehiko Maruyama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Hitoshi Isahara

The identificaion of basic units in spontaneous Japanese is an indispensable issue for spokan language processing. This paper describes a method for the semi-automatic detection of "sentences" from the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ).