Recognizing disfluencies in conversational speech

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1566-1573

  Lease, Matthew ^a,b   Johnson, Mark ^c   Charniak, Eugene ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disfluency modeling; Natural language processing; Rich transcription; Speech processing

Indexed keywords

DISFLUENCY MODELING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RICH TRANSCRIPTION;

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONTEXT FREE LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 34047271072     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2006.878269     Document Type: Article

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