Improving out-of-vocabulary name resolution

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 107-128

  Palmer, David D ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^b  

^a Advanced Technology Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BROADCASTING; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEXICAL RESOURCES; NORMALIZATION PROBLEMS; OUT OF VOCABULARY (OOV) WORDS;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 9644265526     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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