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Word error rate

Known as: Error rate, WER, Word recognition rate 
Word error rate (WER) is a common metric of the performance of a speech recognition or machine translation system. The general difficulty of… 
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Evaluation of machine translationSpeech recognition

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2013
2013
Comparison and Analysis of Different Software Cost Estimation Methods
Software cost estimation is the process of predicting the effort required to develop a software system. The basic input for the… 
2012
2012
Handwritten English Word Recognition Based on Convolutional Neural Networks
This paper presents a novel segmentation-based and lexicon-driven handwritten English recognition systems. For the segmentation… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Investigation into bottle-neck features for meeting speech recognition
This work investigates into recently proposed Bottle-Neck features for ASR. The bottle-neck ANN structure is imported into Split… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Unsupervised acoustic and language model training with small amounts of labelled data
We measure the effects of a weak language model, estimated from as little as 100k words of text, on unsupervised acoustic model… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Wer ist verantwortlich? Die Europäische Union, ihre Nationalstaaten und die massenmediale Attribution von Verantwortung für Erfolge und Misserfolge
Die Verantwortung fur gesellschaftliche Problemlagen, fur Erfolge und Misserfolge ist nicht naturgegeben und ergibt sich auch… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
A review of text and image retrieval approaches for broadcast news video
The effectiveness of a video retrieval system largely depends on the choice of underlying text and image retrieval components… 
2004
2004
Robust garden path parsing
This paper presents modifications to a standard probabilistic context-free grammar that enable a predictive parser to avoid… 
2001
2001
Performance evaluation of checksum-based ABFT
In algorithm-based fault tolerance (ABFT), fault tolerance is tailored to the algorithm performed. Most of the previous studies… 
Highly Cited
1998
Highly Cited
1998
1998 Broadcast News Benchmark Test Results: English and Non-English Word Error Rate Performance Measures
This paper documents the use of Broadcast News test materials in DARPA-sponsored Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) Benchmark… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Improved acoustic modeling for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition
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