Natural language speech query
processing (Wang 02 and Wang 03)
Speech
Recognizer
Query
Model
Confusion
matrix Phrase
Dictionary
Multi-Tier
mapping
Speech
Query
Core Semantic String
(CSS)
Key terms
Figure 2: System architectures
CSS is defined as the key terms in the query that helps
convey the main semantics of the query. Example of CSS in
the query 请帮我收集一些有关本拉登的新闻 (Please give me
information on BinLadin) is 本拉登 (BinLadin).