EFFICIENT LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION THROUGH MDI ESTIMATION

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1583-1586

  Federico, Marcello ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

generalized iterative scaling; language model adaptation; minimum discrimination information estimation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DISCRIMINATION INFORMATIONS; GENERALIZED ITERATIVE SCALING; INFORMATION ESTIMATION; ITS APPLICATIONS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION; MARGINAL DISTRIBUTION; MINIMUM DISCRIMINATION INFORMATION ESTIMATION; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; OBSERVED DATA;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 0009643324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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