Rapid development of spoken language understanding grammars

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 390-416

  Wang, Ye Yi ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic grammar generation; Automatic speech recognition (ASR); Context free grammars (CFGs); Example based grammar learning; Grammar controls; Hidden Markov models (HMMs); n Gram model; Spoken language understanding (SLU); Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY; SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC GRAMMAR GENERATION; CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS (CFG); HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM);

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 32144446917     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.07.001     Document Type: Article

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