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"text": "Speech disfluencies occur naturally in spontaneous speech. Disfluencies such as filled pauses ('uh', 'um') , repetitions ('about about eight months ago'), and repairs ('about eight days I mean months ago') are estimated to occur in 6% of words in spoken English (Kasl and Mahl, 1965; Tree, 1995) . In 1954 , Lounsbury (1954 hypothesized a relationship between disfluencies and the likelihood of the next word. He proposed that speakers have habitual ways of speaking, and the more unexpected a word given the context, the greater the likelihood of a disfluency. Lounsbury did not test this hypothesis, saying that calculating the probability of every word in every context was, at the time, \"an impossible task\" (Lounsbury, 1954 ). Since then, several studies have found that disfluencies occur before less predictable words (Tannenbaum et al., 1965; Beattie and Butterworth, 1979; Siu and Ostendorf, 1996; Arnold et al., 2007) .",
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"text": "Cognitive load has often been studied as a factor that affects disfluencies (Corley and Stewart, 2008) . Disfluencies are found more often before longer sentences (Shriberg, 1994) , in new or unfamiliar contexts (Barr, 2001; Merlo and Mansur, 2004) , and when speakers are performing more challenging tasks (Oviatt, 1995) . Lounsbury (1954) suggested that the likelihood of a word also affects disfluencies. Early studies evaluating disfluencies and the probability of a word used the Shannon guessing technique (Shannon, 1951) or the Cloze procedure (Taylor, 1953) . In these techniques, a spoken text was transcribed and given to judges with missing words. In the Shannon guessing technique, judges guessed each word given the preceding context. In the Cloze procedure, every nth word was deleted, so judges had both left and right context. The probability of a word was based on how many judges could correctly guess it. With the Shannon guessing technique, Goldman-Eisler (1958) found that words preceding a silent pause had lower probability than words without a pause. Using the Cloze procedure, studies found that disfluencies occurred before words with lower probability than fluent contexts (Tannenbaum et al., 1965; Cook, 1969) . Beattie and Butterworth (1979) compared word frequency and contextual probability and found that disfluencies were more likely to occur before words with lower contextual probability, even when word frequency was held constant.",
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"text": "First, we evaluate how often disfluencies occur at the most unpredictable word. Given the list of perplexities for each sentence, we measure how often the maximum perplexity occurs at the word following the disfluency. We find that only 22% of disfluencies occur before the highest perplexity. We next calculate two more lenient measures of highest perplexity. We measure both how many disfluencies occur before the second highest perplexity and how many occur within one token of the highest perplexity. We find that 15% of disfluencies occur before the second highest perplexity, and 23% occur within one token of the highest perplexity. Taken together, 51% of disfluencies occur either before the highest perplexity, the second highest perplexity, or within one token of the highest perplexity.",
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"text": "The histogram in Figure 1 shows the distribution of disfluencies by rank in terms of perplexity (i.e. disfluencies at 1 occur at the highest perplexity, 2 at the second highest perplexity, etc.). This figure shows that disfluencies occur most often at the highest perplexity and trend downward for lower ranks. The histogram in Figure 2 shows the disfluency distribution by distance from the highest perplexity (i.e. disfluencies at 0 are at the highest perplexity, disfluencies at 1 are 1 token away from the highest perplexity, etc.). Here we see that disfluencies occur most often between 0 to 1 tokens from the highest perplexity and this also trends downward as distance increases. Finally, the graph in Figure 3 plots by number of words how often a disfluency occurs at the maximum perplexity compared to how often we would expect it given random chance. The error bars are calculated as a binomial proportion confidence interval based on the number of examples at that word length. For example, for all 5-word sentences, Table 3 : Statistics on the distribution of perplexities there are 4 possible words the disfluency could occur before (no disfluencies occur before the first word). Given random chance, we would expect a disfluency at the highest perplexity 25% of the time, but we see it closer to 30%, showing that our results are likely not a result of random chance. Is there a bias that causes this pattern? 41% of utterances in our dataset have a disfluency at the second word, and disfluencies are known to occur more often near the beginning of the sentence (Shriberg, 1994) . 46% of our highest perplexities are also at the second word. To test if we have just identified a sentence-initial bias, we run our calculations excluding examples where the disfluency or maximum perplexity is at the second word. In this filtered dataset, we find that 18% of disfluencies occur before the maximum perplexity, and 41% occur before the highest, second highest, or within one token of the highest perplexity. While these numbers are lower than on the full dataset, they still show the same pattern. This suggests that our results are not just due to a bias, and may suggest that this pattern in perplexity is related to higher planning demands at the beginning of a sentence.",
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"text": "\u2022 Most NLP tasks optimize to return predictions with low perplexity. However, given that disfluencies occur with higher perplexity, does preferring higher perplexity words following a disfluency give us better performance in speech or entity recognition tasks?",
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