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Entropy-based Pruning of Backoff Language Models
A. Stolcke
A criterion for pruning parameters from N-gram backoff language models is developed, based on the relative entropy between the original and the pruned model. It is shown that the r…
cs.CL2000
Can Prosody Aid the Automatic Classification of Dialog Acts in Conversational Speech?
E. Shriberg, R. Bates, A. Stolcke +7
Identifying whether an utterance is a statement, question, greeting, and so forth is integral to effective automatic understanding of natural dialog. Little is known, however, abou…