Is word error rate a good indicator for spoken language understanding accuracy

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 577-582

  Wang, Ye Yi ^a   Acero, Alex ^a   Chelba, Ciprian ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERRORS; SPEECH;

EXAMPLE-BASED LEARNING; LANGUAGE MODEL; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; TRIGRAM MODEL; WORD ERROR RATE; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84946714447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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