Data driven approach for language model adaptation using stepwise relative entropy minimization

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sethy, Abhinav ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a   Ramabhadran, Bhuvana ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Language model adaptation; Relative entropy; Speech recognition; TC STAR; Text mining

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION; OUT-OF-DOMAIN ADAPTATION; TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEMS;

DATA MINING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547532087     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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