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Language model parameter estimation using user transcriptions

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Hsu, Bo-June; Glass, James R.
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Abstract
In limited data domains, many effective language modeling techniques construct models with parameters to be estimated on an in-domain development set. However, in some domains, no such data exist beyond the unlabeled test corpus. In this work, we explore the iterative use of the recognition hypotheses for unsupervised parameter estimation. We also evaluate the effectiveness of supervised adaptation using varying amounts of user-provided transcripts of utterances selected via multiple strategies. While unsupervised adaptation obtains 80% of the potential error reductions, it is outperformed by using only 300 words of user transcription. By transcribing the lowest confidence utterances first, we further obtain an effective word error rate reduction of 0.6%.
Date issued
2009-05
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58944
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Journal
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Bo-June Hsu, and J. Glass. “Language model parameter estimation using user transcriptions.” Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2009. ICASSP 2009. IEEE International Conference on. 2009. 4805-4808. © 2009 IEEE
Version: Final published version
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INSPEC Accession Number: 10701485
ISBN
978-1-4244-2353-8
ISSN
1520-6149
Keywords
adaptation, language modeling, speech recognition

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