NDLI: Improved Modeling of Cross-Decoder Phone Co-Occurrences in SVM-Based Phonotactic Language Recognition

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Author	Penagarikano, M. Varona, A. Rodriguez-Fuentes, L.J. Bordel, G.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Most common approaches to phonotactic language recognition deal with several independent phone decodings. These decodings are processed and scored in a fully uncoupled way, their time alignment (and the information that may be extracted from it) being completely lost. Recently, we have presented two new approaches to phonotactic language recognition which take into account time alignment information, by considering time-synchronous cross-decoder phone co-occurrences. Experiments on the 2007 NIST LRE database demonstrated that using phone co-occurrence statistics could improve the performance of baseline phonotactic recognizers. In this paper, approaches based on time-synchronous cross-decoder phone co-occurrences are further developed and evaluated with regard to a baseline SVM-based phonotactic system, by using: 1) counts of n-grams (up to 4-grams) of phone co-occurrences; and 2) the degree of co-occurrence of phone n-grams (up to 4-grams). To evaluate these approaches, a choice of open software (Brno University of Technology phone decoders, LIBLINEAR and FoCal) was used, and experiments were carried out on the 2007 NIST LRE database. The two approaches presented in this paper outperformed the baseline phonotactic system, yielding around 7% relative improvement in terms of C_LLR. The fusion of the baseline system with the two proposed approaches yielded 1.83% EER and C_LLR=0.270 (meaning 18% relative improvement), the same performance (on the same task) than state-of-the-art phonotactic systems which apply more complex models and techniques, thus supporting the use of cross-decoder dependencies for language recognition.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Starting Page	2348
Ending Page	2363
Page Count	16
File Size	1483598
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15587916
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-11-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Decoding Acoustics Speech Support vector machines NIST Databases Feature extraction time-synchronous cross-decoder phone co-occurrences Phonotactic language recognition support vector machines (SVMs)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Acoustics and Ultrasonics Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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