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MODELLING UNKNOWN W ORDS IN SPONTANEOUS SPEECH T. Kemp A. Jusek Interactive Systems Laboratories A G Angewandte Informatik Department of Computer Science Technische Fakultat University of Karlsruhe University of Bielefeld 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Postfach 100131 33501 Bielefeld, Germany ABSTRACT taneous data are word fragments and cannot even b e cov- ered by a dictionary of arbitrary size. Recent exp erimental In this pap er we describ e our exp eriments with dierent results on sp ontaneou s data [3] seem to indicate that these acoustic and language mo dels for unknown words in sp onta- word fragments can b e adequately mo delled with a generic neous sp eech. We prop ose a syllable based approach for the new word mo del. This is particularly interesting as there acoustic mo delling of new words. Several mo dels of dierent are no large corp ora of sp ontaneou s sp eech available, that degrees of complexity are evaluated against each other. We can b e used for language mo delling. Therefore, no reliable show that the mo delling of new wo