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Programmed investigation unit.
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This study investigates the feasibility of using subword unit representations for spoken document retrieval as an alternative to using words generated by either keyword spotting or word recognition. Our investigation is motivated by the observation that word-based retrieval approaches face the problem of either having to know the keywords to search for a priori, or requiring a very large recogn...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.6027.91