Chameleon: A Language Model Adaptation Toolkit for Automatic Speech Recognition of Conversational Speech

Yuanfeng Song, Di Jiang, Weiwei Zhao, Qian Xu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Qiang Yang

Abstract
Language model is a vital component in modern automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems. Since “one-size-fits-all” language model works suboptimally for conversational speeches, language model adaptation (LMA) is considered as a promising solution for solving this problem. In order to compare the state-of-the-art LMA techniques and systematically demonstrate their effect in conversational speech recognition, we develop a novel toolkit named Chameleon, which includes the state-of-the-art cache-based and topic-based LMA techniques. This demonstration does not only vividly visualize underlying working mechanisms of a variety of the state-of-the-art LMA models but also provide an interface for the user to customize the hyperparameters of them. With this demonstration, the audience can experience the effect of LMA in an interactive and real-time fashion. We wish this demonstration would inspire more research on better language model techniques for ASR.
Anthology ID:
D19-3007
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations
Month:
November
Year:
2019
Address:
Hong Kong, China
Editors:
Sebastian Padó, Ruihong Huang
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EMNLP | IJCNLP
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SIGDAT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
37–42
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https://aclanthology.org/D19-3007
DOI:
10.18653/v1/D19-3007
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Yuanfeng Song, Di Jiang, Weiwei Zhao, Qian Xu, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, and Qiang Yang. 2019. Chameleon: A Language Model Adaptation Toolkit for Automatic Speech Recognition of Conversational Speech. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP): System Demonstrations, pages 37–42, Hong Kong, China. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Chameleon: A Language Model Adaptation Toolkit for Automatic Speech Recognition of Conversational Speech (Song et al., EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
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