Towards the use of inferred cognitive states in language modeling

Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 323-326

  Ward, Nigel G ^a   Vega, Alejandro ^a  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE STATE; LANGUAGE MODELING; MENTAL PROCESS; SPEAKING RATE; TRIGRAM MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77949379148     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2009.5373290     Document Type: Conference Paper

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