Estimating the potential of signal and interlocutor-track information for language modeling

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 160-163

  Ward, Nigel G ^a   Walker, Benjamin H ^a  

^a 500 W University Avenue   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Entropy; Perplexity; Prediction; Prosody; Shannon's guessing game

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT; DISFLUENCIES; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELING; NEW SOURCES; POTENTIAL VALUES; TEXT CONDITIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; USER INTERFACES;

ENTROPY;

EID: 70450195689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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