Language Model Adaptation Using Machine-Translated Text for Resource-Deficient Languages

Text corpus size is an important issue when building a language model (LM). This is a particularly important issue for languages where little data is available. This paper introduces an LM adaptation technique to improve an LM built using a small amount of task-dependent text with the help of a mach...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sadaoki Furui, Koji Iwano, Arnar Thor Jensson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2009-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/573832