Improving the arabic pronunciation dictionary for phone and word recognition with linguistically-based pronunciation rules

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 397-405

  Biadsy, Fadi ^a   Habash, Nizar ^b   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TELEPHONE SETS; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

ABSOLUTE ACCURACY; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BASELINE SYSTEMS; MODERN STANDARDS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; PHONE RECOGNITION; PRONUNCIATION DICTIONARIES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052968837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620812     Document Type: Conference Paper

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