Effects of language modeling on speech-driven question answering

8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1053-1056

  Akiba, Tomoyosi ^a   Fujii, Atsushi ^b   Itou, Katunobu ^c  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINES; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSCRIPTION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; N-GRAM MODELING; NATURAL LANGUAGE QUESTIONS; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUESTION ANSWERING; RECOGNITION ERROR; TEST COLLECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33745215041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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