A rudimentary lexicon and semantics help bootstrap phoneme acquisition

CoNLL 2014 - 18th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 191-200

  Fourtassi, Abdellah ^a   Dupoux, Emmanuel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

CONTEXT DEPENDENT; FINE GRAINED; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE; REAL SIZES; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84943516217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/v1/w14-1620     Document Type: Conference Paper

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