Web-based language modelling for automatic lecture transcription

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2340-2343

  Munteanu, Cosmin ^a   Penn, Gerald ^a   Baecker, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Corpus building; Language modelling; Lecture transcription; Speech recognition; Topic dependent

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; REMELTING; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACCESS TO INFORMATIONS; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITIONS; CORPUS BUILDING; HYPOTHESIS SPACES; IDENTIFICATION ACCURACIES; LANGUAGE MODELLING; LANGUAGE MODELS; LECTURE TRANSCRIPTION; SHARE KNOWLEDGES; SIMPLE SOLUTIONS; TEXTUAL TRANSCRIPTS; TOPIC DEPENDENT; TWO TYPES; WEB CORPORA; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTIONS; WRITTEN TEXTS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149116530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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