Improving automatic sentence boundary detection with confusion networks

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Short Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 69-72

  Hillard, D ^a   Ostendorf, M ^a   Stolcke, A ^b,c   Liu, Y ^b   Shriberg, E ^b,c  

^a University of Washington   (Estonia)

^b ICSI

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BROADCAST NEWS; CONFUSION NETWORKS; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; MOST LIKELY; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; RECOGNITION ERROR; SENTENCE BOUNDARIES; SENTENCE BOUNDARY DETECTION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33646790992     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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