Random forests in language modeling

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2004 - A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL held in conjunction with ACL 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 325-332

  Xu, Peng ^a   Jelinek, Frederick ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; LANGUAGE MODEL; LARGE VOCABULARY SPEECH RECOGNITION; MODELING APPROACH; N-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; N-GRAMS; RANDOM FORESTS; SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; WORD ERROR RATE;

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EID: 85117170162     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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