On the use of morphological analysis for dialectal Arabic speech recognition

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 277-280

  Afify, Mohamed ^a   Sarikaya, Ruhi ^a   Kuo, Hong Kwang Jeff ^a   Besacier, Laurent ^a   Gao, Yuqing ^a  

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

Author keywords

Dialectal arabic; Language modeling; Morphological analysis; Prefixes and suffixes; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; MORPHOLOGY;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DECOMPOSITION ALGORITHM; DIALECTAL ARABICS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES; TEXT CORPORA; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949111275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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