Large margin estimation of n-gram language models for speech recognition via linear programming

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5398-5401

  Magdin, Vladimir ^a   Jiang, Hui ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Large margin estimation (LME); Linear programming; LVCSR; n gram language modeling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MODELING LANGUAGES;

DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; LARGE MARGIN ESTIMATION; LARGE MARGINS; LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; LINEAR-PROGRAMMING; LVCSR; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; TRAINING ALGORITHMS; WORD GRAPHS;

LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 78049410435     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5494926     Document Type: Conference Paper

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