The use of a linguistically motivated language model in conversational speech recognition

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Wang, Wen ^a,b   Stolcke, Andreas ^a   Harper, Mary P ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL SPEECH RECOGNITION; LEXICAL FEATURES; STRUCTURED LANGUAGE MODEL; SYNTACTIC CONSTRAINTS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTERPOLATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 4544383109     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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