Stochastic Finite-State Models for Spoken Language Machine Translation

Machine Translation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 165-184

  Bangalore, Srinivas ^a   Riccardi, Giuseppe ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Speech to speech translation; Spoken language dialog systems; Stochastic finite state transducers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

SPEECH-TO-SPEECH TRANSLATION; SPOKEN LANGUAGE DIALOG SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 1042265984     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:COAT.0000010804.12581.96     Document Type: Article

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