IMPROVED CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES FOR CLASS-BASED STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELLING

3rd European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1993

Volumn , Issue , 1993, Pages 973-976

  Kneser, Reinhard ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Leaving One Out Method; Statistical Clustering; Stochastic Language Modelling

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BI-GRAM LANGUAGE MODELS; CLASS-BASED; CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE CLUSTERING; LEAVING ONE OUTS; LEAVING-ONE-OUT METHOD; LOCAL OPTIMA; STATISTICAL CLUSTERING; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELLING; STOCHASTIC LANGUAGE MODELS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 85123963268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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