A hidden-state maximum entropy model for word confidence estimation

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yu, Peng ^a   Xu, Jie ^b   Zhang, Guo Liang ^a   Change, Yu Chou ^c   Seide, Frank ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence measure; Keyword spotting

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; WORD PROCESSING;

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; KEYWORD SPOTTING; KEYWORD SPOTTING TASKS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547507524     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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