ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of W06-3201
Paper Title:
A COMBINED PHONETIC-PHONOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ESTIMATING CROSS-LANGUAGE PHONEME SIMILARITY IN AN ASR ENVIRONMENT
A COMBINED PHONETIC-PHONOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ESTIMATING CROSS-LANGUAGE PHONEME SIMILARITY IN AN ASR ENVIRONMENT
Authors: Lynette Melnar and Chen Liu
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- acoustic modeling
- algorithm
- automatic speech recognition
- categorization
- clustering
- cross-language transfer
- data collection
- database
- databases
- distance calculation
- distance measurement
- feature-based phoneme specification
- hmm model construction
- hmm system
- hmms
- illustration
- language development
- measuring
- model construction
- model training
- modeling
- normalization
- phoneme recognition
- phonetic transcription
- processing
- ranking
- recognition
- speech recognition
- speech technology
- transcription
Other assigned terms:
- acoustic model
- acoustic models
- alphabet
- american english
- approach
- baseline performance
- bias
- binary feature
- child language development
- cluster
- context dependency
- cross-language phoneme distance
- distance metric
- distance score
- distinctive feature matrix
- distribution
- entropy
- euclidean distance
- feature
- feature description
- feature matrix
- feature set
- feature specification
- feature structure
- feature vector
- feature weights
- feature-based approach
- histogram
- hmm model
- index
- information gain
- ipa notation
- labeling
- lexica
- lexical frequency
- lexicon
- linguistic
- linguistic approach
- method
- methodology
- native speech
- phoneme
- phoneme distance
- phonemes
- phonemic transcription
- phonetic contrast
- phonological information
- probabilities
- probability
- pronunciation
- recognition task
- roman alphabet
- sentences
- source language
- speech data
- speech database
- style
- symbols
- target language
- target languages
- technology
- theory
- topology
- training
- transcriptions
- transition probabilities
- transposition
- vowel
- word
- words
