Title
Investigations into the Crandem approach to word recognition
Abstract
We suggest improvements to a previously proposed framework for integrating Conditional Random Fields and Hidden Markov Models, dubbed a Crandem system (2009). The previous authors' work suggested that local label posteriors derived from the CRF were too low-entropy for use in word-level automatic speech recognition. As an alternative to the log posterior representation used in their system, we explore frame-level representations derived from the CRF feature functions. We also describe a weight normalization transformation that leads to increased entropy of the CRF posteriors. We report significant gains over the previous Crandem system on the Wall Street Journal word recognition task.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
HLT-NAACL
hidden markov models,previous crandem system,crf posterior,wall street journal word,crandem system,word recognition,crandem approach,previous author,conditional random fields,crf feature function,word-level automatic speech recognition,recognition task
Field
DocType
ISBN
Conditional random field,Normalization (statistics),Computer science,Word recognition,Speech recognition,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Hidden Markov model,Machine learning
Conference
1-932432-65-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rohit Prabhavalkar116322.56
Preethi Jyothi2577.85
William Hartmann36410.66
J. Morris4444.12
Eric Fosler-Lussier569066.40