This book proposes a novel methodology to improve the§performance of a Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech§Recognizer (LVCSR) by modeling several high-level§knowledge resources into an n-best list re-ranking§mechanism. The book focuses on the identification and§formulation of several novel, additional,§domain-independent knowledge resources into a§re-ranking mechanism. We illustrate the extent of§improvements obtainable by efficiently exploiting§phonetic, lexical, syntactic and semantic knowledge.§We improve WER for specific domains by combining§domain-independent knowledge with...