The impact of language models and loss functions on repair disfluency detection

ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 703-711

  Zwarts, Simon ^a   Johnson, Mark ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCE; DISFLUENCIES; F-SCORE; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOSS FUNCTIONS; NOISY CHANNEL; OPTIMISATIONS; SPEECH DATA; SPOKEN LANGUAGES;

OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84857820187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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