A Tree-Based Statistical Language Model for Natural Language Speech Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 1989, Pages 1001-1008

  Bahl, Lalit R ^a   Brown, Peter F ^a   De Souza, Peter V ^a   Mercer, Robert L ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--TREES; PROBABILITY;

BINARY DECISION TREE; NATURAL LANGUAGE SPEECH RECOGNITION; NEXT WORD PREDICTION; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODEL;

SPEECH;

EID: 0024700466     PISSN: 00963518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/29.32278     Document Type: Article

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