An edit-distance model for the approximate matching of timed strings

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 736-741

  Dobrišek, Simon ^a   Žibert, Janez ^a   Pavešić, Nikola ^a   Mihelič, France ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Classifier evaluation; Edit distance; Pattern matching; Similarity measures; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; ERROR DETECTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

APPROXIMATE MATCHING; CLASSIFIER EVALUATION; EDIT DISTANCE; INSERTIONS AND DELETIONS; RECOGNITION ERRORS; SIMILARITY MEASURES; SPEECH DATABASE; TIME DEPENDENTS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 62249176952     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2008.197     Document Type: Article

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