Efficacy of a constantly adaptive language modeling technique for web-scale applications

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4733-4736

  Wang, Kuansan ^a   Li, Xiaolong ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CALM; MAP adaptation; N gram; Statistical language model; Web applications

Indexed keywords

CALM; MAP ADAPTATION; N-GRAM; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODEL; WEB APPLICATIONS;

ACOUSTICS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70349227599     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960688     Document Type: Conference Paper

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