@article{gao2004introduction, author = {Gao, Jianfeng and Lin, Chin-Yew}, title = {Introduction to the Special Issue on Statistical Language Modeling}, year = {2004}, month = {June}, abstract = {The goal of statistical language modeling (SLM) is to estimate the likelihood (or probability) of a word string. SLM is fundamental to many natural language applications like automatic speech recognition (ASR) [Jelinek 1990], statistical machine translation (SMT) [Brown et al. 1993], and Asian language text input [Gao et al. 2002a]}, url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/introduction-special-issue-statistical-language-modeling/}, pages = {87-93}, journal = {ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing}, volume = {3}, number = {2}, }