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@InProceedings{Brinckmann_Benzmüller:1999,
      AUTHOR = {Brinckmann, Caren and Benzmüller, Ralf},
      TITLE = {The Relationship Between Utterance Type and F0 Contour in German},
      YEAR = {1999},
      MONTH = {5 September},
      BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings 6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH '99)},
      VOLUME = {1},
      PAGES = {21-24},
      ADDRESS = {Budapest, Hungary},
      PUBLISHER = {ESCA},
      URL = {https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~cabr/Eurospeech99/},
      ABSTRACT = {In this study we investigate the intonational characteristics of the four utterance types statement, wh-question, yes/no-question and declarative question. Readings of two German scripted dialogues were examined to ascertain characteristic features of the F0 contour for each utterance type. Final boundary tone, nuclear pitch accent, F0 offset, F0 onset, F0 range, and the slopes of a topline and a bottomline were determined for each utterance and compared for the four utterance types. Results show that for an average speaker, the final boundary tone, the F0 range, and the slope of the topline can be used to distinguish between the four utterance types. However, speakers may deviate from this pattern and exploit other intonational means to distinguish certain utterance types or choose not to mark a syntactic difference at all.},
      ANNOTE = {COLIURL : Brinckmann:1999:RBU.pdf Brinckmann:1999:RBU.ps}
}

@InProceedings{Brinckmann_Trouvain:2001,
      AUTHOR = {Brinckmann, Caren and Trouvain, Jürgen},
      TITLE = {On the Role of Duration Prediction and Symbolic Representation for the Evaluation of Synthetic Speech},
      YEAR = {2001},
      BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis},
      PAGES = {35--40},
      ADDRESS = {Pitlochry, Scotland},
      URL = {https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~cabr/ssw4},
      ABSTRACT = {In order to determine priorities for the improvement of timing in synthetic speech this study looks at the role of segmental duration prediction and the role of phonological symbolic representation in listeners' preferences. In perception experiments using German speech synthesis, two standard duration models (Klatt rules and CART) were tested. The input to these models consisted of symbolic strings which were either derived from a database or a text-to-speech system. Results of the perception experiments show that different duration models can only be distinguished when the symbolic string is appropriate. Considering the relative importance of the symbolic representation, ``post-lexical'' segmental rules were investigated with the outcome that listeners differ in their preferences regarding the degree of segmental reduction. As a conclusion, before fine-tuning the duration prediction, it is important to calculate an appropriate phonological symbolic representation in order to improve timing in synthetic speech.},
      ANNOTE = {Brinckmann:2001:RDP}
}

@TechReport{Brinckmann:1997,
      AUTHOR = {Brinckmann, Caren},
      TITLE = {German in Eight Weeks -- A Crash Course for CHATR},
      YEAR = {1997},
      MONTH = {September},
      NUMBER = {TR-IT-0236},
      ADDRESS = {Brinckmann:1997:GEWa},
      INSTITUTION = {ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories},
      ABSTRACT = {With all its different modules, CHATR is an extremely big system. If the output doesn't sound quite right, there are always several ways of improvement. As an example of what can be achieved within eight weeks, this technical report describes how to improve the German voice of CHATR focussing on the database, the lexicon and the prosody prediction.}
}

@Article{Brinckmann_Trouvain:2003,
      AUTHOR = {Brinckmann, Caren and Trouvain, Jürgen},
      TITLE = {The Role of Duration Models and Symbolic Representation for Timing in Synthetic Speech},
      YEAR = {2003},
      MONTH = {January},
      JOURNAL = {International Journal of Speech Technology},
      VOLUME = {6},
      NUMBER = {1},
      PAGES = {21-23},
      URL = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1021043804581},
      ABSTRACT = {In order to determine priorities for the improvement of timing in synthetic speech this study looks at the role of segmental duration prediction and the role of phonological symbolic representation in the perceptual quality of a text-to-speech system. In perception experiments using German speech synthesis, two standard duration models (Klatt rules and CART) were tested. The input to these models consisted of a symbolic representation which was either derived from a database or a text-to-speech system. Results of the perception experiments show that different duration models can only be distinguished when the symbolic representation is appropriate. Considering the relative importance of the symbolic representation, post-lexical segmental rules were investigated with the outcome that listeners differ in their preferences regarding the degree of segmental reduction. As a conclusion, before fine-tuning the duration prediction, it is important to derive an appropriate phonological symbolic representation in order to improve timing in synthetic speech.}
}

@InProceedings{Baumann_et_al:2004,
      AUTHOR = {Baumann, Stefan and Brinckmann, Caren and Hansen-Schirra, Silvia and Kruijff, Geert-Jan M. and Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana and Neumann, Stella and Steiner, Erich and Teich, Elke and Uszkoreit, Hans},
      TITLE = {The MULI Project: Annotation and Analysis of information structure in German and English},
      YEAR = {2004},
      BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2004},
      ADDRESS = {Lisbon}
}

@InProceedings{Baumann_et_al:2004_1,
      AUTHOR = {Baumann, Stefan and Brinckmann, Caren and Hansen-Schirra, Silvia and Kruijff, Geert-Jan M. and Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana and Neumann, Stella and Teich, Elke},
      TITLE = {Application of stand off annotation to three heterogeneous layers},
      YEAR = {2004},
      BOOKTITLE = {Proceedings of Frontiers in Corpus Annotation 2004: NAACL/HLT Conference Workshop},
      ADDRESS = {Boston}
}

@InProceedings{Baumann_et_al:2004_2,
      AUTHOR = {Baumann, Stefan and Brinckmann, Caren and Hansen-Schirra, Silvia},
      TITLE = {Multi-Dimensional Annotation of Linguistic Corpora for Investigating Information Structure},
      YEAR = {2004},
      BOOKTITLE = {Frontiers in Corpus Annotation 2004, NAACL/HLT Conference Workshop, Boston},
      PAGES = {Baumann:2004:MDA}
}