A MISSING-WORD TEST COMPARISON OF HUMAN AND STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODEL PERFORMANCE

6th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 145-148

  Owens, Marie ^a   Krüger, Anja ^a   Donnelly, Paul ^a   Smith, F J ^a   Ming, Ji ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONTEXT INFORMATION; DIFFERENT SIZES; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE MODEL; MODELING PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY CALCULATIONS; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELLING; TEXT CORPORA;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85009195509     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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