IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems
Online ISSN : 1745-1361
Print ISSN : 0916-8532
Special Section on Robust Speech Processing in Realistic Environments
Language Modeling Using PLSA-Based Topic HMM
Atsushi SAKOTetsuya TAKIGUCHIYasuo ARIKI
Author information
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

2008 Volume E91.D Issue 3 Pages 522-528

Details
Abstract

In this paper, we propose a PLSA-based language model for sports-related live speech. This model is implemented using a unigram rescaling technique that combines a topic model and an n-gram. In the conventional method, unigram rescaling is performed with a topic distribution estimated from a recognized transcription history. This method can improve the performance, but it cannot express topic transition. By incorporating the concept of topic transition, it is expected that the recognition performance will be improved. Thus, the proposed method employs a “Topic HMM” instead of a history to estimate the topic distribution. The Topic HMM is an Ergodic HMM that expresses typical topic distributions as well as topic transition probabilities. Word accuracy results from our experiments confirmed the superiority of the proposed method over a trigram and a PLSA-based conventional method that uses a recognized history.

Content from these authors
© 2008 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
Previous article Next article
feedback
Top