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CSL
2004
Springer
13 years 3 months ago
Contemporaneous text as side-information in statistical language modeling
We propose new methods to exploit contemporaneous text, such as on-line news articles, to improve language models for automatic speech recognition and other natural language proce...
Sanjeev Khudanpur, Woosung Kim
TASLP
2008
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Joint Morphological-Lexical Language Modeling for Processing Morphologically Rich Languages With Application to Dialectal Arabic
Language modeling for an inflected language such as Arabic poses new challenges for speech recognition and machine translation due to its rich morphology. Rich morphology results i...
Ruhi Sarikaya, Mohamed Afify, Yonggang Deng, Hakan...
TASLP
2008
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Recognition of Dialogue Acts in Multiparty Meetings Using a Switching DBN
Abstract--This paper is concerned with the automatic recognition of dialogue acts (DAs) in multiparty conversational speech. We present a joint generative model for DA recognition ...
Alfred Dielmann, Steve Renals
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
A general optimization framework for smoothing language models on graph structures
Recent work on language models for information retrieval has shown that smoothing language models is crucial for achieving good retrieval performance. Many different effective smo...
Qiaozhu Mei, Duo Zhang, ChengXiang Zhai
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 3 months ago
Measuring concept relatedness using language models
Over the years, the notion of concept relatedness has attracted considerable attention. A variety of approaches, based on ontology structure, information content, association, or ...
Dolf Trieschnigg, Edgar Meij, Maarten de Rijke, We...
CVIU
2008
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Measuring novelty and redundancy with multiple modalities in cross-lingual broadcast news
News videos from different channels, languages are broadcast everyday, which provide abundant information for users. To effectively search, retrieve, browse and track news stories...
Xiao Wu, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Chong-Wah Ngo
CORR
2010
Springer
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A database approach to information retrieval: The remarkable relationship between language models and region models
In this report, we unify two quite distinct approaches to information retrieval: region models and language models. Region models were developed for structured document retrieval....
Djoerd Hiemstra, Vojkan Mihajlovic
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
The IBM 2008 GALE Arabic speech transcription system
This paper describes the Arabic broadcast transcription system fielded by IBM in the GALE Phase 3.5 machine translation evaluation. Key advances compared to our Phase 2.5 system ...
George Saon, Hagen Soltau, Upendra Chaudhari, Step...
COLING
2000
13 years 5 months ago
Compiling Language Models from a Linguistically Motivated Unification Grammar
Systems now exist which are able to con:pile unification gralmnars into language models that can be included in a speech recognizer, but it is so far unclear whether non-trivial l...
Manny Rayner, Beth Ann Hockey, Frankie James, Eliz...
NAACL
2001
13 years 5 months ago
Generating Training Data for Medical Dictations
In automatic speech recognition (ASR) enabled applications for medical dictations, corpora of literal transcriptions of speech are critical for training both speaker independent a...
Sergey V. Pakhomov, Michael Schonwetter, Joan Bach...