Morphology-based language modeling for conversational Arabic speech recognition

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 589-608

  Kirchhoff, Katrin ^a   Vergyri, Dimitra ^b   Bilmes, Jeff ^a   Duh, Kevin ^a   Stolcke, Andreas ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ARABIC LANGUAGE MODELING; DIALECTAL VARIABILITY; FACTORED LANGUAGE MODELS; FIRST-PASS RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33746579818     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2005.10.001     Document Type: Article

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