Development of SRI's translation systems for broadcast news and broadcast conversations

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2346-2349

  Zheng, Jing ^a   Wang, Wen ^a   Ayan, Necip Fazil ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical phrase based translation; N best reranking; Speech to text translation

Indexed keywords

BROADCAST CONVERSATION; BROADCAST NEWS; DECODING STRATEGY; HIERARCHICAL-PHRASE-BASED TRANSLATION; LANGUAGE MODEL; N-BEST LIST; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; RE-RANKING; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; TESTING DATA; TEXT DATA; TOKENIZATION; TRANSLATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867219997     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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