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Finding consensus in speech recognition: word error minimization and other applications of confusion networks
L. Mangu, E. Brill, A. Stolcke
We describe a new framework for distilling information from word lattices to improve the accuracy of speech recognition and obtain a more perspicuous representation of a set of alt…
Prosody-Based Automatic Segmentation of Speech into Sentences and Topics
E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hakkani-Tur +1
A crucial step in processing speech audio data for information extraction, topic detection, or browsing/playback is to segment the input into sentence and topic units. Speech segme…
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…
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…