A word-based nave bayes classifier for confidence estimation in speech recognition

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 565-574

  Sanchis, Alberto ^a   Juan, Alfons ^a   Vidal, Enrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition (ASR); confidence measures; nave Bayes; posterior probabilities; smoothing; word graphs

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; NAVE BAYES; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SMOOTHING; WORD GRAPHS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 83755187940     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2011.2162403     Document Type: Article

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