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ACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
A Hybrid Rule/Model-Based Finite-State Framework for Normalizing SMS Messages
In recent years, research in natural language processing has increasingly focused on normalizing SMS messages. Different well-defined approaches have been proposed, but the proble...
Richard Beaufort, Sophie Roekhaut, Louise-Am&eacut...
TASLP
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Graceful degradation of speech recognition performance over packet-erasure networks
Abstract--This paper explores packet loss recovery for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in spoken dialog systems, assuming an architecture in which a lightweight client communica...
Constantinos Boulis, Mari Ostendorf, Eve A. Riskin...
SPEECH
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of Broadcast News - The Philips/RWTH approach
Automatic speech recognition of real-live broadcast news (BN) data (Hub-4) has become a challenging research topic in recent years. This paper summarizes our key efforts to build ...
Peter Beyerlein, Xavier L. Aubert, Reinhold Haeb-U...
TASLP
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Combining Spectral Representations for Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition
In this paper we investigate the combination of complementary acoustic feature streams in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR). We have explored the use of acoust...
Giulia Garau, Steve Renals
TASLP
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Rapid Speaker Adaptation Using Clustered Maximum-Likelihood Linear Basis With Sparse Training Data
Abstract-- Speaker space based adaptation methods for automatic speech recognition have been shown to provide significant performance improvements for tasks where only a few second...
Yun Tang, Richard Rose
ICPR
2010
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Incorporating Linguistic Model Adaptation into Whole-Book Recognition
Abstract—Whole-book recognition is a document image analysis strategy that operates on the complete set of a book’s page images using automatic adaptation to improve accuracy. ...
Pingping Xiu, Henry S. Baird
ICASSP
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
An improved consensus-like method for Minimum Bayes Risk decoding and lattice combination
In this paper we describe a method for Minimum Bayes Risk decoding for speech recognition. This is a technique similar to Consensus a.k.a. Confusion Network Decoding, in which we ...
Haihua Xu, Daniel Povey, Lidia Mangu, Jie Zhu
NAACL
1994
13 years 6 months ago
A Hybrid Approach to Adaptive Statistical Language Modeling
We desert'be our latest attempt at adaptive language modeling. At the heart of our approachis a Maximum Entropy(ME) modelwhich inc.orlxnatesmanyknowledgesources in a consiste...
Ronald Rosenfeld
TREC
2000
13 years 6 months ago
Spoken Document Retrieval for TREC-9 at Cambridge University
This paper presents work done at Cambridge University for the TREC-9 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. The CUHTK transcriptions from TREC-8 with Word Error Rate (WER) of 20.5...
Sue E. Johnson, P. Jourlin, Karen Sparck Jones, Ph...
ANLP
2000
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13 years 6 months ago
Named Entity Extraction from Noisy Input: Speech and OCR
In this paper, we analyze the performance of name finding in the context of a variety of automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems and in the context of one optical character rec...
David R. H. Miller, Sean Boisen, Richard M. Schwar...