Use of contexts in language model interpolation and adaptation

X Liu, MJF Gales, PC Woodland - Computer Speech & Language, 2013 - Elsevier
Language models (LMs) are often constructed by building multiple individual component
models that are combined using context independent interpolation weights. By tuning these …

Improved models for Mandarin speech-to-text transcription

L Lamel, JL Gauvain, VB Le, I Oparin… - 2011 IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes recent advances at LIMSI in Mandarin Chinese speech-to-text
transcription. A number of novel approaches were introduced in the different system …

Language model cross adaptation for LVCSR system combination

X Liu, MJF Gales, PC Woodland - Computer Speech & Language, 2013 - Elsevier
State-of-the-art large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) systems often
combine outputs from multiple sub-systems that may even be developed at different sites …

Syllable language models for Mandarin speech recognition: Exploiting character language models

X Liu, JL Hieronymus, MJF Gales… - The Journal of the …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Mandarin Chinese is based on characters which are syllabic in nature and morphological in
meaning. All spoken languages have syllabiotactic rules which govern the construction of …

[PDF][PDF] Mandarin Word-Character Hybrid-Input Neural Network Language Model.

M Kang, T Ng, L Nguyen - INTERSPEECH, 2011 - researchgate.net
We applied neural network language model (NNLM) on Chinese by training and testing it on
2011 GALE Mandarin evaluation task. Exploiting the fact that there are no word boundaries …

An improved two-stage mixed language model approach for handling out-of-vocabulary words in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition

B Réveil, K Demuynck, JP Martens - Computer Speech & Language, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents a two-stage mixed language model technique for detecting and
recognizing words that are not included in the vocabulary of a large vocabulary continuous …

Language model combination and adaptation usingweighted finite state transducers

X Liu, MJF Gales, JL Hieronymus… - … on Acoustics, Speech …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In speech recognition systems language model (LMs) are often constructed by training and
combining multiple n-gram models. They can be either used to represent different genres or …

The Phaistos Disk: A new way of viewing the language behind the script

B Davis - Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This paper outlines a new linguistics‐based method of investigating the languages behind
the undeciphered members of the Bronze Age Aegean family of syllabic scripts. Using this …

[PDF][PDF] Deploying google search by voice in cantonese

YH Sung, M Jansche, PJ Moreno - Twelfth Annual Conference of the …, 2011 - academia.edu
We describe our efforts in deploying Google search by voice for Cantonese, a southern
Chinese dialect widely spoken in and around Hong Kong and Guangzhou. We collected …

Large-scale language modeling with random forests for mandarin Chinese speech-to-text

I Oparin, L Lamel, JL Gauvain - … on NLP, IceTAL 2010, Reykjavik, Iceland …, 2010 - Springer
In this work the random forest language modeling approach is applied with the aim of
improving the performance of the LIMSI, highly competitive, Mandarin Chinese speech-to …