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CIKM
1999
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
A General Language Model for Information Retrieval
Statistical language modeling has been successfully used for speech recognition, part-of-speech tagging, and syntactic parsing. Recently, it has also been applied to information r...
Fei Song, W. Bruce Croft
ICPR
2000
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Video-Based Continuous Sign Language Recognition Using Statistical Methods
This paper is concerned with a development of a videobased recognition system of continuous sign language. The system aimsfor an automatic signer dependent recognition of sign lan...
Britta Bauer, Hermann Hienz, Karl-Friedrich Kraiss
ESSMAC
2003
Springer
14 years 19 days ago
Hex: Dynamics and Probabilistic Text Entry
We present a gestural interface for entering text on a mobile device via continuous movements, with control based on feedback from a probabilistic language model. Text is represent...
John Williamson, Roderick Murray-Smith
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Bayesian extension to the language model for ad hoc information retrieval
We propose a Bayesian extension to the ad-hoc Language Model. Many smoothed estimators used for the multinomial query model in ad-hoc Language Models (including Laplace and Bayes-...
Hugo Zaragoza, Djoerd Hiemstra, Michael E. Tipping
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Investigating the relationship between language model perplexity and IR precision-recall measures
An empirical study has been conducted investigating the relationship between the performance of a generative language model in terms of perplexity and the corresponding informatio...
Leif Azzopardi, Mark Girolami, Keith van Rijsberge...
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Learning the lexicon from raw texts for open-vocabulary Korean word recognition
In this paper, we propose a novel method of building a language model for open-vocabulary Korean word recognition. Due to the complex morphology of Korean, it is inappropriate to ...
Sungho Ryu, Jin Hyung Kim
ICDAR
2003
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
N-Gram and N-Class Models for On line Handwriting Recognition
This paper highlights the interest of a language model in increasing the performances of on-line handwriting recognition systems. Models based on statistical approaches, trained o...
Freddy Perraud, Christian Viard-Gaudin, Emmanuel M...
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Speech Corpus Generation
Corpus-based stochastic language models have achieved significant success in speech recognition, but construction of a corpus pertaining to a specific application is a difficult ta...
Yandong Fan, Elizabeth A. Kendall
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 28 days ago
Empirical Study of Utilizing Morph-Syntactic Information in SMT
In this paper, we present an empirical study that utilizes morph-syntactical information to improve translation quality. With three kinds of language pairs matched according to mor...
Young-Sook Hwang, Taro Watanabe, Yutaka Sasaki
MLMI
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Using Prosodic Features in Language Models for Meetings
Abstract. Prosody has been actively studied as an important knowledge source for speech recognition and understanding. In this paper, we are concerned with the question of exploiti...
Songfang Huang, Steve Renals