Combining speech retrieval results with generalized additive models

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 461-469

  Olsson, J Scott ^a   Oard, Douglas W ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; RANKED RETRIEVAL; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; SPEECH RETRIEVAL;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 77952308118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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