Language model adaptation using random forests

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5198-5201

  Deoras, Anoop ^a   Jelinek, Frederick ^a   Su, Yi ^b  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Language modeling; Random forests

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FORESTRY; MODELING LANGUAGES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION; BROADCAST NEWS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION; LARGE AMOUNTS; MERGING TECHNIQUES; MODEL INTERPOLATION; RANDOM FORESTS; TREE NODES;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 78049394660     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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