Putting it all together: Language model combination

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 1647-1650

  Goodman, Joshua T ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH PROCESSING; APPROXIMATION THEORY; INTERPOLATION; PROBABILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

HIGHER-ORDER; LANGUAGE MODEL; MODIFIED KNESER-NEY SMOOTHING; N-GRAMS; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; TRIGRAM MODEL;

MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

KATZ SMOOTHING; KNESER-NEY SMOOTHING; LANGUAGE MODEL COMBINATION;

EID: 0033677118     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2000.862064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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