Enhanced Bert-Based Ranking Models for Spoken Document Retrieval

Hsiao Yun Lin, Tien Hong Lo, Berlin Chen

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Abstract

The Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model has recently achieved record-breaking success on many natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as question answering and language understanding. However, relatively little work has been done on ad-hoc information retrieval (IR), especially for spoken document retrieval (SDR). This paper adopts and extends BERT for SDR, while its contributions are at least three-fold. First, we augment BERT with extra language features such as unigram and inverse document frequency (IDF) statistics to make it more applicable to SDR. Second, we also explore the incorporation of confidence scores into document representations to see if they could help alleviate the negative effects resulting from imperfect automatic speech recognition (ASR). Third, we conduct a comprehensive set of experiments to compare our BERT-based ranking methods with other state-of-The-Art ones and investigate the synergy effect of them as well.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages601-606
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728103068
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019 Dec
Event2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU 2019 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 2019 Dec 152019 Dec 18

Publication series

Name2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU 2019 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, ASRU 2019
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period2019/12/152019/12/18

Keywords

  • BERT
  • Spoken document retrieval
  • information retrieval
  • model augmentation
  • speech recognition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Signal Processing
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Communication

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