Mandarin-English Information (MEI): Investigating translingual speech retrieval

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 163-179

  Meng, Helen M ^a   Chen, Berlin ^b   Khudanpur, Sanjeev ^c   Levow, Gina Anne ^d   Lo, Wai Kit ^a   Oard, Douglas ^d   Schone, Patrick ^e   Tang, Karen ^f   Wang, Hsin Min ^b   Wang, Jianqiang ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Department of Defense ^*  (United States)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

English Chinese cross language spoken document retrieval; Multi scale spoken document retrieval

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; GLOSSARIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CROSS-LANGUAGE SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; MULTI-SCALE SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; TRANSLINGUAL SPEECH RETRIEVAL; WORD-BASED RETRIEVAL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 12144286470     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2003.09.003     Document Type: Article

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