Query language modeling for voice search

2010 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 127-132

  Chelba, C ^a   Schalkwyk, J ^a   Brants, T ^a   Ha, V ^a   Harb, B ^a   Neveitt, W ^a   Parada, C ^a,b   Xu, P ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language modeling; Query stream; Voice search

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BRITAIN; DESIGN DECISIONS; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; LANGUAGE MODELING; NON-STATIONARITIES; QUERY STREAM; SEARCH SERVICES; STREAM LANGUAGES; VOICE SEARCH;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HYDRAULICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

EID: 79951790224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2010.5700834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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