Vocabulary expansion through automatic abbreviation generation for Chinese voice search

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 321-335

  Yang, Dong ^a   Pan, Yi Cheng ^a   Furui, Sadaoki ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic abbreviation generation; Vocabulary expansion; Voice search

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ABBREVIATION; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; HYBRID METHOD; SEARCH ACCURACY; SPOKEN CHINESE; TAGGING PROBLEM; WEB INFORMATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84861637641     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2011.12.002     Document Type: Article

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