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Discriminative estimation of interpolation parameters for language model classifiers (1999)
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| Author | Nöth, E. Harbeck, S. Levit, M. Niemann, H. Warnke, V. |
| Abstract | In this paper we present a new approach for estimating the interpolation parameters of language models (LM) which are used as classifiers. With the classical maximum likelihood (ML) estimation theoretically one needs to have a huge amount of data and the fundamental density assumption has to be correct. Usually one of these conditions is violated, so different optimization techniques like maximum mutual information (MMI) and minimum classification error (MCE) can be used instead, where the interpolation parameters are not optimized on its own but in consideration of all models together. In this paper we present how MCE and MMI techniques can be applied to two different kind of interpolation strategies: the linear interpolation, which is the standard interpolation method and the rational interpolation. We compare ML, MCE and MMI on the German part of the Verbmobil corpus, where we get a reduction of 3 % of classification error when discriminating between 18 dialog act classes. 1. |
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| Publisher Date | 1999-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Verbmobil Corpus Linear Interpolation Fundamental Density Assumption Minimum Classification Error Language Model Classifier Classical Maximum Likelihood Mmi Technique Standard Interpolation Method Discriminative Estimation Maximum Mutual Information German Part Rational Interpolation Dialog Act Class Interpolation Strategy Different Optimization Technique Interpolation Parameter |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
