Optimizing CRFs for SLU tasks in various languages using modified training criteria

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2727-2730

  Hahn, Stefan ^a   Lehnen, Patrick ^a   Heigold, Georg ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional random fields; Spoken language understanding; Tagging; Training criteria

Indexed keywords

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; REGULARIZATION PARAMETERS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; STATISTICAL MODELS;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 70450218196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (11)

1. J. Lafferty, A. McCallum, and F. Pereira, "Conditional random fields: Probabilistic models for segmenting and labeling sequence data," in Proc. of the Eighteenth Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML), Williamstown, MA, USA, Jun. 2001, pp. 282-289.
2. C. Raymond and G. Riccardi, "Generative and Discriminative Algorithms for Spoken Language Understanding," in Interspeech, Antwerp, Belgium, Aug. 2007, pp. 1605-1608.
3. S. Hahn, P. Lehnen, C. Raymond, and H. Ney, "A Comparison of Various Methods for Concept Tagging for Spoken Language Understanding," in Proc. of the Sixth Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
4. M. Riedmiller and H. Braun, "A direct adaptive method for faster backpropagation learning: The Rprop algorithm," in Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Neural Networks, 1993.
5. G. Heigold, R. Schlüter, and H. Ney, "Modified MPE/MMI in a transducer-based framework," in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009.
6. H. Bonneau-Maynard, S. Rosset, C. Ayache, A. Kuhn et al., "Semantic Annotation of the French Media Dialog Corpus," in Interspeech, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2005, pp. 3457-3460.
7. K. Marasek and R. Gubrynowicz, "Design and Data Collection for Spoken Polish Dialogs Database," in Proc. of the Sixth Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.
8. A. Mykowiecka, K. Marasek, M. Marciniak, J. Rabiega-Wiśniewska, and R. Gubrynowicz, "Annotation of Polish spoken dialogs in LUNA project," in 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics (LTC), Poznan, Poland, Oct. 2007.
9. C. Raymond, G. Riccardi, J. Rodrígez, and J.Wisniewska, "The LUNA Corpus: an Annotation Scheme for a Multi-domain Multi-lingual Dialogue Corpus," in Proc. of the 11th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Decalog), Trento, Italy, May 2007, pp. 185-186.
10. M. Dinarelli, A. Moschitti, and G. Riccardi, "Joint Generative and Discriminative Models for Spoken Language Understanding," in Proc. of the 2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology (SLT), Goa, India, Dec. 2008, pp. 61-64.
11. NIST, "Speech recognition scoring toolkit (SCTK)," http://www.nist.gov/speech/tools/.