Evaluation of PROS-3 for the assignment of prosodic structure, compared to assignment by human experts

This paper describes the results of an evaluation of PROS-3, a system that assigns prosodic structure to text on the basis of the output of a syntactic parser. In order to evaluate the performance of PROS-3 as such and in combination with a revised algorithm for prosodic phrasing, we compare it to the prosodic structure as assigned by human experts. Also, the results of a perception experiment are presented, which show that listeners have the same preference of prosodic realization as we would expect on the basis of the comparison of the prosodic structures as assigned by PROS-3 and by human experts