Discriminative N-gram language modeling for Turkish

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 825-828

  Arisoy, Ebru ^a   Roark, Brian ^b   Shafran, Izhak ^b   Saraçlar, Murat ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agglutinative languages; Discriminative language modeling; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEM; BASELINE MODELS; BROADCAST NEWS; FEATURE SETS; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE MODELING; N-GRAMS; SIGNIFICANCE TEST; TURKISHS; WORD ERROR RATE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867218623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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