Abstract. This paper presents an empirical study on four techniques of language model adaptation, including a maximum a posteriori (MAP) method and three discriminative training mo...
Recent developments in statistical modeling of various linguistic phenomena have shown that additional features give consistent performance improvements. Quite often, improvements...
Many of the kinds of language model used in speech understanding suffer from imperfect modeling of intra-sentential contextual influences. I argue that this problem can be address...
The success of spoken dialog applications depends strongly on the quality of the semantic confidence measure that determines the selection of the dialog strategy. However, the sem...
A compressed full-text self-index for a text T , of size u, is a data structure used to search for patterns P, of size m, in T , that requires reduced space, i.e. space that depend...