Table 2.

Description of the corpus characteristics for the algorithm evaluation tasks.

Corpus characteristics	Algorithm evaluation tasks
	Recognize lexical content		Categorize phrasal stress within stress corpus
	Training set	Test set	Training set	Test set
Corpus name:	Lexical corpus	Stress corpus	Stress training set	Stress test set
Total no. of phrases	600	150	120	30
No. of unique phrases	600	50	40	10
Composition:	Unique phrases with no phrasal stress	50 phrases each with stress on the first word, last word, or no stress	40 phrases each with stress on the first word, last word, or no stress	10 phrases each with stress on the first word, last word, or no stress