The ICSI+ multilingual sentence segmentation system

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 117-120

  Zimmerman, M ^a   Hakkani Tur D ^a   Fung, J ^a   Mirghafori, N ^a   Gottlieb, L ^a   Shriberg, E ^a,b   Liu, Y ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Hidden event language models; Maximum entropy; Prosody

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ENTROPY; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNIZERS; BOOSTING; BOOSTING CLASSIFIERS; LANGUAGE MODEL; MULTILINGUAL SENTENCES; PROSODY; SPECIFIC ADAPTATIONS; SYNTACTIC INFORMATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949208337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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