TASK DEPENDENT LOSS FUNCTIONS IN SPEECH RECOGNITION: A* SEARCH OVER RECOGNITION LATTICES

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 1243-1246

  Vaibhava, Goel ^a   William, Byrne ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

F MEASURE; LOSS FUNCTIONS; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI PROBABILITY; N-BEST LIST; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; RECOGNITION STRATEGIES; RISK-BASED; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; WORD ERROR RATE; YIELD IMPROVEMENT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85135262343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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