Topic adaptation for language modeling using unnormalized exponential models

SF Chen, K Seymore…�- Proceedings of the 1998�…, 1998 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
SF Chen, K Seymore, R Rosenfeld
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics�…, 1998ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present novel techniques for performing topic adaptation on an n-gram language model.
Given training text labeled with topic information, we automatically identify the most relevant
topics for new text. We adapt our language model toward these topics using an exponential
model, by adjusting the probabilities in our model to agree with those found in the topical
subset of the training data. For efficiency, we do not normalize the model; that is, we do not
require that the" probabilities" in the language model sum to 1. With these techniques, we�…
We present novel techniques for performing topic adaptation on an n-gram language model. Given training text labeled with topic information, we automatically identify the most relevant topics for new text. We adapt our language model toward these topics using an exponential model, by adjusting the probabilities in our model to agree with those found in the topical subset of the training data. For efficiency, we do not normalize the model; that is, we do not require that the "probabilities" in the language model sum to 1. With these techniques, we were able to achieve a modest reduction in speech recognition word-error rate in the broadcast news domain.
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