Scanning methods and language modeling for binary switch typing

Workshop on Speech and Language Processing for Assistive Technologies, SLPAT 2010 at the 2010 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL-HLT 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 28-36

  Roark, Brian ^a   De Villiers, Jacques ^a   Gibbons, Christopher ^b   Fried Oken, Melanie ^b  

^a Center for Spoken Language Understanding

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

BINARY SWITCH; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER LANGUAGES; HUFFMAN; LANGUAGE MODEL; METHOD MODEL; PERFORMANCE; SCANNING METHODS; SIMPLE++; TYPING SPEED;

SCANNING;

EID: 85120180676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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