Lattice extension and vocabulary adaptation for turkish LVCSR

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 163-173

  Arisoy, Ebru ^a   Saraçlar, Murat ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Agglutinative languages; Lattice extension; Speech recognition; Vocabulary adaptation

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE; AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGES; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; DISTANCE-BASED; LATTICE EXTENSION; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; OOV PROBLEM; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SEARCH SPACES; SIGNIFICANCE TEST; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; TURKISHS; TWO-PASS SPEECH; VOCABULARY ADAPTATION; WORD ERROR RATE; WORD-BASED SYSTEMS;

LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70350482314     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.2006655     Document Type: Article

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