@InProceedings{ludusan-EtAl:2017:Short,
  author    = {Ludusan, Bogdan  and  Mazuka, Reiko  and  Bernard, Mathieu  and  Cristia, Alejandrina  and  Dupoux, Emmanuel},
  title     = {The Role of Prosody and Speech Register in Word Segmentation: A Computational Modelling Perspective},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers)},
  month     = {July},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Vancouver, Canada},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {178--183},
  abstract  = {This study explores the role of speech register and prosody for the task of
	word segmentation. Since these two factors are thought to play an important
	role in early language acquisition, we aim to quantify their contribution for
	this task. We study a Japanese corpus containing both infant- and
	adult-directed speech and we apply four different word segmentation models,
	with and without knowledge of prosodic boundaries. The results showed that the
	difference between registers is smaller than previously reported and that
	prosodic boundary information helps more adult- than infant-directed speech.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/P17-2028}
}