@inproceedings{ircing-etal-2006-exploiting,
title = "Exploiting Linguistic Knowledge in Language Modeling of {C}zech Spontaneous Speech",
author = "Ircing, Pavel and
Hoidekr, Jan and
Psutka, Josef",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}{'}06)",
month = may,
year = "2006",
address = "Genoa, Italy",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/591_pdf.pdf",
abstract = "In our paper, we present a method for incorporating available linguistic information into a statistical language model that is used in ASR system for transcribing spontaneous speech. We employ the class-based language model paradigm and use the morphological tags as the basis for world-to-class mapping. Since the number of different tags is at least by one order of magnitude lower than the number of words even in the tasks with moderately-sized vocabularies, the tag-based model can be rather robustly estimated using even the relatively small text corpora. Unfortunately, this robustness goes hand in hand with restricted predictive ability of the class-based model. Hence we apply the two-pass recognition strategy, where the first pass is performed with the standard word-based n-gram and the resulting lattices are rescored in the second pass using the aforementioned class-based model. Using this decoding scenario, we have managed to moderately improve the word error rate in the performed ASR experiments.",
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%T Exploiting Linguistic Knowledge in Language Modeling of Czech Spontaneous Speech
%A Ircing, Pavel
%A Hoidekr, Jan
%A Psutka, Josef
%S Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
%D 2006
%8 may
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%X In our paper, we present a method for incorporating available linguistic information into a statistical language model that is used in ASR system for transcribing spontaneous speech. We employ the class-based language model paradigm and use the morphological tags as the basis for world-to-class mapping. Since the number of different tags is at least by one order of magnitude lower than the number of words even in the tasks with moderately-sized vocabularies, the tag-based model can be rather robustly estimated using even the relatively small text corpora. Unfortunately, this robustness goes hand in hand with restricted predictive ability of the class-based model. Hence we apply the two-pass recognition strategy, where the first pass is performed with the standard word-based n-gram and the resulting lattices are rescored in the second pass using the aforementioned class-based model. Using this decoding scenario, we have managed to moderately improve the word error rate in the performed ASR experiments.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/591_pdf.pdf
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[Exploiting Linguistic Knowledge in Language Modeling of Czech Spontaneous Speech](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/591_pdf.pdf) (Ircing et al., LREC 2006)
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