Dialect classification on printed text using perplexity measure and conditional random fields

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Huang, Rongqing ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional random fields; Dialect classification; n gram language model; Text classification

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS; DIALECT CLASSIFICATION; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; TEXT CLASSIFICATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 34547544190     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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