Verónica Romero


2018

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On the Derivational Entropy of Left-to-Right Probabilistic Finite-State Automata and Hidden Markov Models
Joan Andreu Sánchez | Martha Alicia Rocha | Verónica Romero | Mauricio Villegas
Computational Linguistics, Volume 44, Issue 1 - April 2018

Probabilistic finite-state automata are a formalism that is widely used in many problems of automatic speech recognition and natural language processing. Probabilistic finite-state automata are closely related to other finite-state models as weighted finite-state automata, word lattices, and hidden Markov models. Therefore, they share many similar properties and problems. Entropy measures of finite-state models have been investigated in the past in order to study the information capacity of these models. The derivational entropy quantifies the uncertainty that the model has about the probability distribution it represents. The derivational entropy in a finite-state automaton is computed from the probability that is accumulated in all of its individual state sequences. The computation of the entropy from a weighted finite-state automaton requires a normalized model. This article studies an efficient computation of the derivational entropy of left-to-right probabilistic finite-state automata, and it introduces an efficient algorithm for normalizing weighted finite-state automata. The efficient computation of the derivational entropy is also extended to continuous hidden Markov models.

2011

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Handwritten Text Recognition for Historical Documents
Verónica Romero | Nicolás Serrano | Alejandro H. Toselli | Joan Andreu Sánchez | Enrique Vidal
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technologies for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage

2007

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Viterbi Based Alignment between Text Images and their Transcripts
Alejandro H. Toselli | Verónica Romero | Enrique Vidal
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage Data (LaTeCH 2007).