Backoff model training using partially observed data: Application to dialog act tagging

HLT-NAACL 2006 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 280-287

  Ji, Gang ^a   Bilmes, Jeff ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BACK-OFF; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; MODEL TRAINING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OBSERVED DATA; TEST DATA; TEST ERRORS; TRAINING DATA; WORD MODELS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 34547826580     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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