A novel method of language modeling for automatic captioning in TC video teleconferencing

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 332-337

  Zhang, Xiaojia ^a   Zhao, Yunxin ^a   Schopp, Laura ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Mixture language model (LM); Teleconsultation (TC); Telemedicine; Video teleconferencing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERPOLATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TELECONFERENCING; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEO CONFERENCING;

EXPECTATION-MAXIMATION ALGORITHM; MIXTURE LANGUAGE MODEL (LM); TELECONSULTATION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DOCUMENTATION; EVALUATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; TELECONSULTATION; VIDEOCONFERENCING; VIDEORECORDING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DOCUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REMOTE CONSULTATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; VIDEO RECORDING; VIDEOCONFERENCING; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 34248589754     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2006.885549     Document Type: Article

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