NDLI: I-smooth for improved minimum classification error training

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Haozheng Li Munteanu, C.
Copyright Year	2010
Description	Author affiliation: National Research Council of Canada (Haozheng Li; Munteanu, C.)
Abstract	Increasing the generalization capability of Discriminative Training (DT) of Hidden Markov Models (HMM) has recently gained an increased interest within the speech recognition field. In particular, achieving such increases with only minor modifications to the existing DT method is of significant practical importance. In this paper, we propose a solution for increasing the generalization capability of a widely-used training method - the Minimum Classification Error (MCE) training of HMM - with limited changes to its original framework. For this, we define boundary data - obtained by applying a large steep parameter, and confusion data - obtained by applying a small steep parameter on the training samples, and then do a soft interpolation between these according to the number points of occupancies of boundary data and the number points ratio between the boundary and the confusion occupancies. The final HMM parameters are then tuned in the same manner as in MCE by using the interpolated boundary data. We show that the proposed method achieves lower error rates than a standard HMM training framework on a phoneme classification task for the TIMIT speech corpus.
Starting Page	4906
Ending Page	4909
File Size	175130
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424442959
ISSN	15206149
DOI	10.1109/ICASSP.2010.5495109
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-03-14
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Hidden Markov models Maximum likelihood estimation Speech recognition Interpolation Testing Councils Error analysis Mutual information Minimum Classification Errors Hidden Markov Model Speech Recognition
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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