Exploring the relative role of bottom-up and top-down information in phoneme learning

52nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2014 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-6

  Fourtassi, Abdellah ^a   Schatz, Thomas ^a   Varadarajan, Balakrishnan ^b   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP AND TOP-DOWN; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; LARGE CORPORA; LINGUISTIC PROPERTIES; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH; STATISTICAL REGULARITY; TOPDOWN;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84906926604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/p14-2001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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