Title
Towards a domain-independent ASR-confidence classifier
Abstract
This work addresses the problem of developing a domain-independent binary classifier for a test domain given labeled data from several training domains where the test domain is not necessarily present in training data. The classifier accepts or rejects the ASR hypothesis based on the confidence generated by the ASR system. In the proposed approach, training data is grouped into across-domain clusters and separate cluster-specific classifiers are trained. One of the main findings is that the cluster purity and the normalized mutual information of the clusters are not very high which suggests that the domains might not necessarily be natural clusters. The performance of these cluster-specific classifiers is better than that of: (a) a single classifier trained on data from all the domains, and (b) a set of classifiers trained separately for each of the training domains. At an operating point corresponding to low False Accept, the Correct Accept of the proposed technique is on an average 2.3% higher than that obtained by the single-classifier or the individual train-domain classifiers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6289025
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
pattern clustering,signal classification,speech recognition,ASR hypothesis,ASR system,across-domain clusters,automatic speech recognition system,cluster-specific classifiers,correct accept,domain-independent ASR-confidence classifier,domain-independent binary classifier,k-means clustering,low false accept,train-domain classifiers,training data,IVR systems,K-means clustering,cluster-purity,confidence measures
Training set,k-means clustering,Binary classification,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Operating point,Random subspace method,Speech recognition,Mutual information,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Cluster analysis
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1520-6149 E-ISBN : 978-1-4673-0044-5
978-1-4673-0044-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Deshmukh, O.D.111.04
Ashish Verma210817.38
Etienne Marcheret310011.15