Stochastic automata for language modeling

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 265-293

  Riccardi, Giuseppe ^a   Pieraccini, Roberto ^a   Bocchieri, Enrico ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECODING; FINITE AUTOMATA; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC LANGUAGE MODELS; VARIABLE N GRAM STOCHASTIC AUTOMATON; VITERBI DECODER;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 0030259932     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1996.0014     Document Type: Article

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