Automatic discovery of topics and acoustic morphemes from speech

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 220-239

  Cerisara, Christophe ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

Author keywords

Lexical acquisition; Speech processing; Topic clustering

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; INFORMATION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; RIVERS; SPEECH; TELEPHONE SETS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

APPROXIMATE STRING MATCHING; AUDIO STREAMING; AUTOMATIC DISCOVERY; CO-OCCURRENCE; COMPUTATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; LEXICAL ACQUISITION; LEXICAL ENTRIES; LEXICAL ITEMS; LINGUISTIC RESOURCES; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH STREAM; TOPIC CLUSTERING; TOPIC DISCOVERY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 53849090935     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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