Automatic Query Generation and Query Relevance Measurement for Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation of Speech Recognition. (14th December 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ito, Akinori; Kajiura, Yasutomo; Suzuki, Motoyuki; Makino, Shozo
• Other Names: Franco Horacio Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: EURASIP journal on audio, speech, and music processing. Volume 2009(2009)
• Publication Date: 2009-12-14
• Subjects: Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques -- Periodicals; Computer sound processing -- Periodicals; Computer sound processing; Sound -- Recording and reproducing -- Digital techniques; Periodicals; Electronic journal; Electronic journals; 620.2
• DOI: 10.1155/2009/140575
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1687-4714

Abstract

Abstract : We are developing a method of Web-based unsupervised language model adaptation for recognition of spoken documents. The proposed method chooses keywords from the preliminary recognition result and retrieves Web documents using the chosen keywords. A problem is that the selected keywords tend to contain misrecognized words. The proposed method introduces two new ideas for avoiding the effects of keywords derived from misrecognized words. The first idea is to compose multiple queries from selected keyword candidates so that the misrecognized words and correct words do not fall into one query. The second idea is that the number of Web documents downloaded for each query is determined according to the "query relevance." Combining these two ideas, we can alleviate bad effect of misrecognized keywords by decreasing the number of downloaded Web documents from queries that contain misrecognized keywords. Finally, we examine a method of determining the number of iterative adaptations based on the recognition likelihood. Experiments have shown that the proposed stopping criterion can determine almost the optimum number of iterations. In the final experiment, the word accuracy without adaptation (55.29%) was improved to 60.38%, which was 1.13 point better than the result of the conventional unsupervised adaptation method (59.25%).