Investigating the use of morphological decomposition and diacritization for improving Arabic LVCSR

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2679-2682

  El Desoky, Amr ^a   Gollan, Christian ^a   Rybach, David ^a   Schlüter, Ralf ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arabic; Diacritization; Morphological decomposition; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

ARABIC; ARABIC LANGUAGES; ARABIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DIACRITIZATION; LANGUAGE MODEL; LARGE VOCABULARY; RELATIVE REDUCTION; TEST SETS; WORD ERROR RATE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450201749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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