Joint morphological-lexical language modeling (JMLLM) for Arabic

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Sarikaya, Ruhi ^a   Afify, Mohamed ^a   Gao, Yuqing ^a  

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

Author keywords

Joint modeling; Language modeling; Maximum entropy modeling; Morphological analysis

Indexed keywords

JOINT MORPHOLOGICAL-LEXICAL LANGUAGE MODELING (JMLLM); LANGUAGE MODELING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELING; OUT-OF-VOCABULARY (OOV) RATE;

INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547535012     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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