Title
Asr Error Management For Improving Spoken Language Understanding
Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of automatic speech recognition (ASR) error detection and their use for improving spoken language understanding (SLU) systems. In this study, the SLU task consists in automatically extracting, from ASR transcriptions, semantic concepts and concept/values pairs in a e.g touristic information system. An approach is proposed for enriching the set of semantic labels with error specific labels and by using a recently proposed neural approach based on word embeddings to compute well calibrated ASR confidence measures. Experimental results are reported showing that it is possible to decrease significantly the Concept/Value Error Rate with a state of the art system, outperforming previously published results performance on the same experimental data. It also shown that combining an SLU approach based on conditional random fields with a neural encoder/decoder attention based architecture, it is possible to effectively identifying confidence islands and uncertain semantic output segments useful for deciding appropriate error handling actions by the dialogue manager strategy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.21437/Interspeech.2017-1178
18TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (INTERSPEECH 2017), VOLS 1-6: SITUATED INTERACTION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
spoken language understanding, speech recognition, robustness to ASR errors
Conference
abs/1705.09515
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2308-457X
2
0.39
References 
Authors
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edwin Simonnet120.39
sahar ghannay295.65
Nathalie Camelin33914.29
Yannick Estève429850.89
Renato De Mori5960161.75