Strategies for automatic multi-tier annotation of spoken language corpora

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 45-48

  Greenberg, Steven ^a  

^a Speech Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; MINORITY LANGUAGES; SPEAKING STYLES; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; STATISTICAL CLASSIFIER; UNIVERSAL ACCESS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009179135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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