Using semantic analysis to improve speech recognition performance

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 321-343

  Erdogan, Hakan ^a   Sarikaya, Ruhi ^b   Chen, Stanley F ^b   Gao, Yuqing ^b   Picheny, Michael ^b  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; PROCEDURE ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

JOINT SEMANTIC-LEXICAL MODELING; LEXICAL INFORMATION; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 16344385664     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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