C-ToBI-based pitch accent prediction using maximum-entropy model

Abstract

We model Chinese pitch accent prediction as a classification problem with six C-ToBI pitch accent types, and apply conditional Maximum Entropy (ME) classification to this problem. We acquire multiple levels of linguistic knowledge from natural language processing to make well-integrated features for ME framework. Five kinds of features were used to represent various linguistic constraints including phonetic features, POS tag features, phrase break features, position features, and length features.