MAP-BASED CROSS-LANGUAGE ADAPTATION AUGMENTED BY LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE: FROM ENGLISH TO CHINESE

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 871-874

  Fung, Pascale ^a   Ma, Chi Yuen ^a   Liu, Wai Kat ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; LINGUISTICS;

CROSS LANGUAGES; ERROR REDUCTION; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; MANUAL ANNOTATION; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI METHODS; MODEL TRAINING; PHONEME MODELS; REDUCTION RATE; SOURCE LANGUAGE; TARGET LANGUAGE;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0004659972     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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