Inducing Sound Segment Differences using Pair Hidden Markov Models

Proceedings of 9th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group in Computational Morphology and Phonology, SIGMORPHON 2007 - Held in conjunction with the 45th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics, ACL 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 48-56

  Wieling, Martijn ^a   Leinonen, Therese ^a   Nerbonne, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

DISTANCE MEASURE; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; LEVENSHTEIN DISTANCE; NETHERLANDS; PAIR HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

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