“…In addition to directly impacting the meaning of some utterances, such as "okay" (Gravano, Benus, Hirschberg, German, & Ward, 2008), prosody is used to structure spoken material (Grosz & Sidner, 1986;Nakajima & Allen, 1993), affecting the intended context of interpretation. Analysis of higher level prosody has also been shown to be useful in improving performance in many spoken language processing tasks, such as ASR (Zhang, Hasegawa-Johnson, & Levinson, 2004), speech synthesis (Demenko, Grocholewski, Wagner, & Szymanski, 2006), speaker identification (Weber, Manganaro, Peskin, & Shriberg, 2002), language (Tong, Ma, Zhu, Li, & Chang, 2006) and dialect identification (Rouas, 2007), story/topic segmentation (Rosenberg, Sharifi, & Hirschberg, 2007;, sentence segmentation (Shriberg, Stolcke, Hakkani-Tur, & Tur, 2000), discourse segmentation (Hirschberg & Nakatani, 1996;Nakatani, Hirschberg, & Grosz, 1995), extractive speech summarization (Maskey, Rosenberg, & Hirschberg, 2008), punctuation insertion (Christensen, Gotoh, & Renals, 2001), and speech act classification (Ananthakrishnan, Ghosh, & Narayanan, 2008;Shriberg et al, 1998).…”