Using chunk based partial parsing of spontaneous speech in unrestricted domains for reducing word error rate in speech recognition

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1453-1459

  Zechner, Klaus ^a   Waibel, Alex ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH; N-BEST LIST; N-GRAM MODELING; N-GRAM MODELS; PART OF SPEECH; PARTIAL PARSING; RE-RANKING; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 22944475624     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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