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IBPRIA
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Smoothing Techniques for Tree-k-Grammar-Based Natural Language Modeling
Abstract. In a previous work, a new probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) model for natural language parsing derived from a tree bank corpus has been introduced. The model esti...
Jose L. Verdú-Mas, Jorge Calera-Rubio, Rafa...
IR
2008
13 years 4 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
NLPRS
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Simple Closed-Class/Open-Class Factorization for Improved Language Modeling
We describe a simple improvement to ngram language models where we estimate the distribution over closed-class (function) words separately from the conditional distribution of ope...
Fuchun Peng, Dale Schuurmans
LREC
2008
146views Education» more  LREC 2008»
13 years 6 months ago
On the Use of Web Resources and Natural Language Processing Techniques to Improve Automatic Speech Recognition Systems
Language models used in current automatic speech recognition systems are trained on general-purpose corpora and are therefore not relevant to transcribe spoken documents dealing w...
Gwénolé Lecorvé, Guillaume Gr...