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Variational approximation of long-span language models for lvcsr

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Variational approximation of long-span language models for lvcsr
Long-span language models that capture syntax and semantics are seldom used in the first pass of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition systems due to the prohibitive search-space of sentencehypotheses. Instead, an N-best list of hypotheses is created using tractable n-gram models, and rescored using the long-span models. It is shown in this paper that computationally tractable variational approximations of the long-span models are a better choice than standard n-gram models for first pass decoding. They not only result in a better first pass output, but also produce a lattice with a lower oracle word error rate, and rescoring the N-best list from such lattices with the long-span models requires a smaller N to attain the same accuracy. Empirical results on the WSJ, MIT Lectures, NIST 2007 Meeting Recognition and NIST 2001 Conversational Telephone Recognition data sets are presented to support these claims.
Anoop Deoras, Tomas Mikolov, Stefan Kombrink, Mart
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Type Journal
Year 2011
Where ICASSP
Authors Anoop Deoras, Tomas Mikolov, Stefan Kombrink, Martin Karafiát, Sanjeev Khudanpur
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