| Presentation | 2005/12/15 Speaking Style Transformation of Language Model Based on Statistical Machine Translation Framework Yuya AKITA, Tatsuya KAWAHARA, |
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| Abstract(in English) | One of the most significant problems in language modeling of spontaneous speech such as meetings and lectures is that only limited amount of matched training data, i.e. faithful transcript for the relevant task domain, is available. In this paper, we propose a novel transformation approach to estimate language model statistics of spontaneous speech from a document-style text database, which is often available with a large scale. The proposed statistical transformation model is designed for modeling characteristic linguistic phenomena in spontaneous speech and estimating their occurrence probabilities. These contextual patterns and probabilities are derived from a small amount of parallel aligned corpus of the faithful transcripts and their document-style texts. To realize wide coverage and reliable estimation, a model based on part-of-speech (POS) is also prepared to provide a back-off scheme from a word-based model. The approach has been successfully applied to estimation of the language model for National Congress meetings from their minute archives, and significant reduction of test-set perplexity is achieved. |
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| Keyword(in English) | Spontaneous speech / Speech recognition / Language model / Statistical machine translation / Speaking style |
| Paper # | NLC2005-75,SP2005-108 |
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| Committee | NLC |
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| Conference Date | 2005/12/15(1days) |
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| Registration To | Natural Language Understanding and Models of Communication (NLC) |
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| Language | JPN |
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| Title (in English) | Speaking Style Transformation of Language Model Based on Statistical Machine Translation Framework |
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| Keyword(1) | Spontaneous speech |
| Keyword(2) | Speech recognition |
| Keyword(3) | Language model |
| Keyword(4) | Statistical machine translation |
| Keyword(5) | Speaking style |
| 1st Author's Name | Yuya AKITA |
| 1st Author's Affiliation | Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University() |
| 2nd Author's Name | Tatsuya KAWAHARA |
| 2nd Author's Affiliation | Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University |
| Date | 2005/12/15 |
| Paper # | NLC2005-75,SP2005-108 |
| Volume (vol) | vol.105 |
| Number (no) | 494 |
| Page | pp.pp.- |
| #Pages | 6 |
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