Investigating the role of machine translated text in ASR domain adaptation: Unsupervised and semi-supervised methods

2011 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2011, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 260-265

  Cucu, Horia ^a,b   Besacier, Laurent ^b   Burileanu, Corneliu ^a   Buzo, Andi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN ADAPTATION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED METHOD; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84858978033     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2011.6163941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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