Presentation 2017-03-02
[Poster Presentation] Use of the end of sentence and speaker-derived information in recurrent neural network language models for multiparty conversations.
Hiroto Ashikawa, Naohiro Tawara, Atsunori Ogawa, Tomoharu Iwata, Tetsuji Ogawa, Tetsunori Kobayashi,
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Abstract(in English) Information on the end of sentence (EOS) and speaker alternation was exploited in recurrent neural network-based language models and its contribution to improvement in performance of predicting subsequent wordsin multiparty conversations was investigated. These kinds of information were represented as context cues and feature vectors. The former context cues can be inserted to the transcriptions for training, equivalently as other word tokens. The latter feature vectors can be taken as inputs to the neural networks. Experimental comparisons using actual multiparty conversations demonstrated that both representations reduced the perplexity compared tothe case without the EOS and speaker information. The EOS information contributed a lot to improvement in performance of word prediction, especially for multiparty conversations.
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Keyword(in English) recurrent neural network / context cue / language model / multiparty conversation
Paper # EA2016-133,SIP2016-188,SP2016-128
Date of Issue 2017-02-22 (EA, SIP, SP)

Conference Information
Committee SP / SIP / EA
Conference Date 2017/3/1(2days)
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Place (in English) Okinawa Industry Support Center
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Topics (in English) Speech, Engineering/Electro Acoustics, Signal Processing, and Related Topics
Chair Kazunori Mano(Shibaura Inst. of Tech.) / Makoto Nakashizuka(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Mitsunori Mizumachi(Kyushu Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Hiroki Mori(Utsunomiya Univ.) / Masahiro Okuda(Univ. of Kitakyushu) / Shogo Muramatsu(Niigata Univ.) / Yoichi Haneda(Univ. of Electro-Comm.) / Suehiro Shimauchi(NTT)
Secretary Hiroki Mori(Kobe Univ.) / Masahiro Okuda(Shizuoka Univ.) / Shogo Muramatsu(Ritsumeikan Univ.) / Yoichi Haneda(Chiba Inst. of Tech.) / Suehiro Shimauchi(KDDI R&D Labs.)
Assistant Taichi Asami(NTT) / Kei Hashimoto(Nagoya Inst. of Tech.) / Osamu Watanabe(Takushoku Univ.) / Shigeto Takeoka(Shizuoka Inst. of Science and Tech.) / TREVINO Jorge(Tohoku Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Speech / Technical Committee on Signal Processing / Technical Committee on Engineering Acoustics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) [Poster Presentation] Use of the end of sentence and speaker-derived information in recurrent neural network language models for multiparty conversations.
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) recurrent neural network
Keyword(2) context cue
Keyword(3) language model
Keyword(4) multiparty conversation
1st Author's Name Hiroto Ashikawa
1st Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Naohiro Tawara
2nd Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Atsunori Ogawa
3rd Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
4th Author's Name Tomoharu Iwata
4th Author's Affiliation Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation(NTT)
5th Author's Name Tetsuji Ogawa
5th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
6th Author's Name Tetsunori Kobayashi
6th Author's Affiliation Waseda University(Waseda Univ.)
Date 2017-03-02
Paper # EA2016-133,SIP2016-188,SP2016-128
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) EA-475,SIP-476,SP-477
Page pp.pp.287-290(EA), pp.287-290(SIP), pp.287-290(SP),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2017-02-22 (EA, SIP, SP)