Entropy based classifier combination for sentence segmentation

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Magimai Doss, M ^a   Hakkani Tur D ^a   Cetin O ^a   Shriberg, E ^a,b   Fung, J ^a   Mirghafori, N ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifier combination; Entropy; Hidden event language model; Lexical and prosodic features; Sentence segmentation

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CLASSIFIER COMBINATIONS; HIDDEN EVENT LANGUAGE MODELS; LEXICAL AND PROSODIC FEATURES; SENTENCE SEGMENTATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547539743     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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