AUGMENTING WORDS WITH LINGUISTIC INFORMATION FOR N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 2171-2174

  Galescu, Lucian ^a   Ringger, Eric K ^b  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

^b NLP Group Microsoft Research

Author keywords

augmented word models; n gram models; NLPWin; phrase models; POS tags; semantic syntactic tags; speech recognition; statistical language modelling; WSJ corpus

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION USE; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUGMENTED-WORD MODEL; N-GRAM MODELING; N-GRAM MODELS; NLPWIN; PHRASE MODEL; POS TAG; SEMANTIC/SYNTACTIC TAG; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELLING; WORD MODELING; WSJ CORPUS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85072793495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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