Towards better language models for spontaneous speech
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چکیده
In our eeort to build a speech{to{speech translation system for spontaneous spoken dialogs we have developed several methods to improve the language models of the speech decoder of the system. We attempt to take advantage of natural equivalence word classes, frequently occur-ing word phrases, and discourse structure. Each of these methods was tested on spontaneous English, German and Spanish human{human dialogs.
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