Application specific loss minimization using gradient boosting

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 4880-4883

  Zhang, Bin ^a   Sethy, Abhinav ^b   Sainath, Tara N ^b   Ramabhadran, Bhuvana ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

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

Author keywords

confidence estimation; Gradient boosting; named entity recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE PREDICTION; APPLICATION SPECIFIC; CONFIDENCE ESTIMATION; FLEXIBLE MACHINES; GRADIENT BOOSTING; LOSS FUNCTIONS; LOSS MINIMIZATION; NAMED ENTITY RECOGNITION; OPERATING POINTS; SPEED-UPS; WEAK LEARNER; WORD ERROR RATE;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING;

EID: 80051648221     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947449     Document Type: Conference Paper

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