Optimizing sentence segmentation for spoken language translation

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2812-2815

  Rao, Sharath ^a   Lane, Ian ^a   Schultz, Tanja ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Optimal segment length; Sentence segmentation; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SEGMENTATIONS; ARABIC BROADCAST NEWS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONVENTIONAL APPROACHES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; MT SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SEGMENT LENGTH; RESEGMENTING; SEGMENT LENGTHS; SENTENCE BOUNDARIES; SENTENCE SEGMENTATION; SENTENCE SEGMENTATIONS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE TRANSLATIONS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; WORD ERROR RATES;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TELLURIC PROSPECTING; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149113663     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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