Comparing grammar-based and robust approaches to speech understanding: A case study

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

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 1779-1782

  Knight, Sylvia ^a   Gorrell, Genevieve ^b   Rayner, Manny ^b   Milward, David ^a   Koeling, Rob ^b   Lewin, Ian ^b  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Netdecisions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; ROBUST APPROACHES; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELS; TRAINING DATA;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009084411     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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