Bootstrapping a unified model of lexical and phonetic acquisition

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 184-193

  Elsner, Micha ^a   Goldwater, Sharon ^a   Eisenstein, Jacob ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICULATORY FEATURES; BAYESIAN MODEL; GOLD STANDARDS; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; LANGUAGE MODEL; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MODELING VARIABILITY; PHONETIC KNOWLEDGE;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS;

EID: 84878200666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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