TEXT SEGMENTATION AND TOPIC TRACKING ON BROADCAST NEWS VIA A HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL APPROACH

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, ICSLP 1998

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  van Mulbregt, P ^a   Carp, I ^a   Gillick, L ^a   Lowe, S ^a   Yamron, J ^a  

^a Dragon Systems Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION; BROADCAST NEWS; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; MODELING APPROACH; TEXT SEGMENTATION; TOPIC TRACKING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 85128383641     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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