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Jonathan J. Oliver

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UAI Conference 1997 Conference Paper

Lexical Access for Speech Understanding using Minimum Message Length Encoding

  • Ian E. Thomas
  • Ingrid Zukerman
  • Jonathan J. Oliver
  • David W. Albrecht
  • Bhavani Raskutti

The Lexical Access Problem consists of determining the intended sequence of words corresponding to an input sequence of phonemes (basic speech sounds) that come from a low-level phoneme recognizer. In this paper we present an information-theoretic approach based on the Minimum Message Length Criterion for solving the Lexical Access Problem. We model sentences using phoneme realizations seen in training, and word and part-of-speech information obtained from text corpora. We show results on multiple-speaker, continuous, read speech and discuss a heuristic using equivalence classes of similar sounding words which speeds up the recognition process without significant deterioration in recognition accuracy.

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