Robust information extraction from automatically generated speech transcriptions

Speech Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 95-109

  Palmer, David D ^a,b   Ostendorf, Mari ^a   Burger, John D ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING; TOPOLOGY;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; CLASS-BASED STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); INFORMATION EXTRACTION (IE); PHRASE LANGUAGE MODELS; VARIABLE LENGTH PHRASES; WORD RECOGNITION CONFIDENCE;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034276379     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00026-1     Document Type: Article

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