Automatic syllabification with structured SVMs for letter-to-phoneme conversion

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 568-576

  Bartlett, Susan ^a   Kondrak, Grzegorz ^a   Cherry, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINATIVE APPROACH; WORD ERROR RATE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 70350637854     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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