THE USE OF LINGUISTIC HIERARCHIES IN SPEECH UNDERSTANDING

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Seneff, Stephanie ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP; FIRST SYSTEMS; LEVEL STRUCTURE; LINGUISTIC HIERARCHIES; LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; RELATED SYSTEMS; SENTENCE LEVEL; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; TOPDOWN;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0008571680     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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