Semantic similarity for detecting recognition errors in automatic speech transcripts

HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 49-56

  Inkpen, Diana ^a   Désilets, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ERRORS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; END USERS; EVALUATION MEASURES; LARGE VOLUMES; RECOGNITION ERROR; SEMANTIC OUTLIERS; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80053262859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220575.1220582     Document Type: Conference Paper

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