Applying many-to-many alignments and hidden Markov models to letter-to-phoneme conversion

NAACL HLT 2007 - Human Language Technologies 2007: The Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 372-379

  Jiampojamarn, Sittichai ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a   Sherif, Tarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION MODELS; DATA SETS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; TRAINING DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ALIGNMENT;

EID: 52149101362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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