Adding manually annotated prosodic information, specifically pitch accents
and phrasing, to the typical text-based feature set for coreference resolution
has previously been shown to have a positive effect on German data. Practical
applications on spoken language, however, would rely on automatically predicted
prosodic information. In this paper we predict pitch accents (and phrase
boundaries) using a convolutional neural network (CNN) model from acoustic
features extracted from the speech signal. After an assessment of the quality
of these automatic prosodic annotations, we show that they also significantly
improve coreference resolution.

本文介绍了利用卷积神经网络从语音信号的声学特征中提取的音高重音及语调信息对共指消解产生积极影响，并且通过自动预测声调信息的实验结果进一步支持了前人研究的结论。

利用自动预测的韵律信息来改进指代消解

Improving coreference resolution with automatically predicted prosodic  information

This paper demonstrates the potential of convolutional neural networks (CNN)
for detecting and classifying prosodic events on words, specifically pitch
accents and phrase boundary tones, from frame-based acoustic features. Typical
approaches use not only feature representations of the word in question but
also its surrounding context. We show that adding position features indicating
the current word benefits the CNN. In addition, this paper discusses the
generalization from a speaker-dependent modelling approach to a
speaker-independent setup. The proposed method is simple and efficient and
yields strong results not only in speaker-dependent but also
speaker-independent cases.

本文研究了卷积神经网络在检测和分类词汇上的韵律事件，包括音高强调和短语边界音调，作者说明加入当前词汇位置特征可以使卷积神经网络表现更好，并且将模型从单个发音者扩展到多个发音者的情况下性能依然较强。