Using EM-trained string-edit distances for approximate matching of acoustic morphemes

7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 1157-1160

  Levit, Michael ^a   Noth, Elmar ^a   Gorin, Allen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

APPROXIMATE MATCHING; EDIT DISTANCE; FALSE REJECTION RATE; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; LARGE CORPORA; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS; TEST DATA;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84905236221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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