Variable-length category n-gram language models

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 99-124

  Niesler, T R ^a   Woodland, P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STATISTICAL TAGGING OPERATIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032650074     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/csla.1998.0115     Document Type: Article

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