Improving the robustness of prosody dependent language modeling based on prosody syntax dependence

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

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 435-440

  Chen, Ken ^a   Hasegawa Johnson, Mark ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTACTICS;

DATA SPARSENESS; INTONATIONAL PHRASE; JOINT PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; RECOGNITION ACCURACY; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; WORD PERPLEXITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84983190601     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318480     Document Type: Conference Paper

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