Named entity recognition from Conversational Telephone Speech leveraging Word Confusion Networks for training and recognition

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5572-5575

  Kurata, Gakuto ^a   Itoh, Nobuyasu ^a   Nishimura, Masafumi ^a   Sethy, Abhinav ^b   Ramabhadran, Bhuvana ^b  

^a IBM RESEARCH TOKYO   (Japan)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Conversational Telephone Speech; Maximum Entropy Model; Named Entity Recognition; Word Confusion Network

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CALL CENTERS; CONVERSATIONAL TELEPHONE SPEECH; MAXIMUM ENTROPY MODELS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRINCIPLE; NAMED ENTITIES; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; WORD CONFUSION NETWORK;

ENTROPY; ERRORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80051645990     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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