Effective utterance classification with unsupervised phonotactic models

Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, HLT-NAACL 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages

  Alshawi, Hiyan ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTICS MODEL; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; N-GRAM MODELING; N-GRAM MODELS; TRAINING DATA; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING; UTTERANCE CLASSIFICATION; WORD TRIGRAMS;

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EID: 85050642433     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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