Good-turing estimation from word lattices for unsupervised language model adaptation

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 453-458

  Riley, Michael ^a   Roark, Brian ^a   Sproat, Richard ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACOUSTIC AND LANGUAGE MODELS; BACKOFF; GOOD-TURING; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION; NATURAL GENERALIZATION; SMOOTH WORDS; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 27744500451     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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