Language model adaptation in machine translation from speech

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bulyko, Ivan ^a   Matsoukas, Spyros ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^a   Nguyen, Long ^a   Makhoul, John ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain adaptation; Language modeling; Speech translation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC BROADCAST SPEECH; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; LANGUAGE MODELING; SPEECH TRANSLATION;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 34547549479     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.367177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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