Effectiveness of the backoff hierarchical class n-gram language models to model unseen events in speech recognition

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 560-565

  Zitouni, Imed ^a   Kuo, Hong Kwang Jeff ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ELECTRIC SWITCHBOARDS; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLASS HIERARCHIES; DIFFERENT SIZES; HIERARCHY DEPTHS; LANGUAGE MODEL; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; N-GRAM MODELS; TEST CORPUS; WALL STREET JOURNAL;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 79251556434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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