Improving language model perplexity and recognition accuracy for medical dictations via within-domain interpolation with literal and semi-literal corpora

6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Savova, Guergana ^a   Schonwetter, Michael ^a   Pakhomov, Sergey ^a  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INTERPOLATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION; LANGUAGE MODEL; RECOGNITION ACCURACY;

MODELING LANGUAGES;

EID: 85009067813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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