Geo-centric language models for local business voice search

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 389-396

  Stent, Amanda ^a   Zeljković, Ilija ^a   Caseiro, Diamantino ^a   Wilpon, Jay ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE SERVICES; FAST RECOGNITION; GEOGRAPHIC AREAS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOCAL BUSINESS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; RECOGNITION TIME; VOICE SEARCHES;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 79959391300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620811     Document Type: Conference Paper

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