Space-Efficient Representation of Entity-centric Query Language Models

Autor: Van Gysel, Christophe, Hannemann, Mirko, Pusateri, Ernest, Oualil, Youssef, Oparin, Ilya
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: Virtual assistants make use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) to help users answer entity-centric queries. However, spoken entity recognition is a difficult problem, due to the large number of frequently-changing named entities. In addition, resources available for recognition are constrained when ASR is performed on-device. In this work, we investigate the use of probabilistic grammars as language models within the finite-state transducer (FST) framework. We introduce a deterministic approximation to probabilistic grammars that avoids the explicit expansion of non-terminals at model creation time, integrates directly with the FST framework, and is complementary to n-gram models. We obtain a 10% relative word error rate improvement on long tail entity queries compared to when a similarly-sized n-gram model is used without our method.
Comment: Interspeech '22
Databáze: arXiv