A Quadratic Optimization Approach to Discriminative Training of CDHMMs

IEEE Signal Processing Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 149-152

  Liu, Peng ^a   Soong, Frank ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

Discriminative training; ellipsoid constrained quadratic programming; hidden Markov model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008044926     PISSN: 10709908     EISSN: 15582361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2008.2011710     Document Type: Article

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