Constrained discriminative training of N-gram language models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 311-316

  Rastrow, Ariya ^a   Sethy, Abhinav ^b   Ramabhadran, Bhuvana ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MODEL; BACK-OFF; BROADCAST NEWS; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; GLOBAL CONSTRAINTS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 77949407866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2009.5373338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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