Using the Web for fast language model construction in minority languages

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3117-3120

  Le, Viet Bac ^a   Bigi, Brigitte ^a   Besacier, Laurent ^a   Castelli, Eric ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Ministry of Education and Training   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; EFFICIENT CONSTRUCTION; FILTERING METHOD; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; FILTERING TOOLS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MINORITY LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL LEARNING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33646820243     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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