Dialect separation assessment using log-likelihood score distributions

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 747-750

  Mehrabani, Mahnoosh ^a   Hansen, John H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialect classification; Distance metric; Expected performance; Separation measure

Indexed keywords

COMMON LANGUAGES; DIALECT CLASSIFICATION; DISTANCE METRICS; EXPECTED PERFORMANCE; LOG LIKELIHOOD; SPEECH SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; TRAINING DATA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867228481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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