Combining word-And class-based language models: A comparative study in several languages using automatic and manual word-clustering techniques

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 21-24

  Maltese, G ^a   Bravetti, P ^a   Crepy H ^a   Grainger, B J ^a   Herzog, M ^a   Palou, F ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SYNTACTICS;

BRITISH ENGLISH; CLASS-BASED LANGUAGE MODEL; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA SPARSENESS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; PARTS OF SPEECH; WORD ERROR RATE REDUCTIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009063836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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