Morphology-based and sub-word language modeling for Turkish speech recognition


Sak H., SARAÇLAR M., GÜNGÖR T.

2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2010, Dallas, TX, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 14 - 19 Mart 2010, ss.5402-5405, (Tam Metin Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/icassp.2010.5494927
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Dallas, TX
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5402-5405
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Morphology-based, sub-word, morphology-integrated, language modeling, automatic speech recognition
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We explore morphology-based and sub-word language modeling approaches proposed for morphologically rich languages, and evaluate and contrast them for Turkish broadcast news transcription task. In addition, as a morphology-based model, we improve our previously proposed morphology-integrated model for automatic speech recognition. This model is built by composing the finite-state transducer of the morphological parser with a language model over lexical morphemes. This approach provides a morphology-integrated search network with an unlimited vocabulary, generating only valid word forms while reducing the out-of-vocabulary rate and hence improving the word error rate. We also analyze the effect of morphotactics and morphological disambiguation on the speech recognition accuracy for the morphology-integrated model. The improved morphology-integrated model performs better than statistically derived sub-word models with added benefit of generating morphosyntactic and semantic features. ©2010 IEEE.