Combining Several ASR Outputs in a Graph-Based SLU System

In this paper, we present an approach to Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) where we perform a combination of multiple hypotheses from several Automatic Speech Recognizers (ASRs) in order to reduce the impact of recognition errors in the SLU module. This combination is performed using a Grammatical...

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Autores: Calvo Lance, Marcos, Hurtado Oliver, Lluis Felip|||0000-0002-1877-0455, García-Granada, Fernando|||0000-0003-2213-4213, Sanchís Arnal, Emilio|||0000-0002-6737-4723
Tipo de recurso: capítulo de libro
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/66425
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/66425
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph of words
Graph of concepts
Spoken language understanding
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Sumario:In this paper, we present an approach to Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) where we perform a combination of multiple hypotheses from several Automatic Speech Recognizers (ASRs) in order to reduce the impact of recognition errors in the SLU module. This combination is performed using a Grammatical Inference algorithm that provides a generalization of the input sentences by means of a weighted graph of words. We have also developed a specific SLU algorithm that is able to process these graphs of words according to a stochastic semantic modelling.The results show that the combinations of several hypotheses from the ASR module outperform the results obtained by taking just the 1-best transcription