Computational language acquisition by statistical bottom-up processing

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1980-1983

  Räsänen, Okko ^a   Laine, Unto K ^a   Altosaar, Toomas ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Computational language acquisition; Speech clustering; Speech segmentation; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL LANGUAGES; HUMAN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; IN-LINE; SPEECH SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL LEARNING; TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITY; WORD LEARNING;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; STATISTICS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867209590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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