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Most of state-of-the-art large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems use word-based n-gram language models. Such models are not optimal solution for inflectional or agglutinative languages. The Polish language is highly inflectional one and requires a very large corpora to create a sufficient language model with the small out-of-vocabulary ratio. We propose a syllable-based language model, which is better suited to highly inflectional language like Polish. In case of lack of resources (i.e. small corpora) syllable-based model outperforms word-based models in terms of number of out-of-vocabulary units (syllables in our model). Such model is an approximation of the morpheme-based model for Polish. In our paper, we show results of evaluation of syllable based model and its usefulness in speech recognition tasks.
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Majewski, P. (2008). Syllable Based Language Model for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition of Polish. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5246. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87391-4_51
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