Tightly integrated spoken language understanding using word-to-concept translation

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 429-432

  Sudoh, Katsuhito ^a   Tsukada, Hajime ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WORD PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC ALIGNMENT; SEMANTIC CONCEPTS; WORD-TO-CONCEPT TRANSLATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745214240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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