Constituent-based accent prediction

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 939-945

  Nakatani, Christine H ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY;

BASELINE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; ERROR RATE REDUCTION; MACHINE-LEARNING; NEW APPROACHES; NOUN PHRASE; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85149132982     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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