An HMM/N-gram-based linguistic processing approach for Mandarin spoken document retrieval

Berlin Chen, Hsin Min Wang, Lin Shan Lee

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Abstract

In this paper an HMM/N-gram-based linguistic processing approach for Mandarin spoken document retrieval is presented. The underlying characteristics and different structures of this approach were extensively investigated. The retrieval capabilities were verified by tests with indexing features of word-And syllable(subword)-levels and comparison with the conventional vector space model approach. To further improve the discrimination capabilities of the HMMs, both the expectation-maximization (EM) and minimum classification error (MCE) training algorithms were introduced in training. The information fusion of indexing features of word-And syllable-levels was also investigated. The spoken document retrieval experiments were performed on the Topic Detection and Tracking Corpora (TDT-2 and TDT-3). Very encouraging retrieval performance was obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
EditorsBorge Lindberg, Henrik Benner, Paul Dalsgaard, Zheng-Hua Tan
PublisherInternational Speech Communication Association
Pages1045-1048
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)8790834100, 9788790834104
Publication statusPublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
Event7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001 - Aalborg, Denmark
Duration: 2001 Sept 32001 Sept 7

Publication series

NameEUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Other

Other7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityAalborg
Period2001/09/032001/09/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Communication
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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