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Syntactic Reanalysis in Language Models for Speech Recognition

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State-of-the-art speech recognition systems steadily increase their performance using different variants of deep neural networks and postprocess the results by employing N-gram statistical models trained on a large amount of data coming from the general-purpose domain. While achieving an excellent performance regarding Word Error Rate (17.343% on our Human-Robot Interaction data set), state-of-the-art systems generate hypotheses that are grammatically incorrect in 57.316% of the cases. Moreover, if employed in a restricted domain (e.g. Human-Robot Interaction), around 50% of the hypotheses contain out-of-domain words. The latter are confused with similarly pronounced in-domain words and cannot be interpreted by a domain-specific inference system. The state-of-the-art speech recognition systems lack a mechanism that addresses syntactic correctness of hypotheses. We propose a system that can detect and repair grammatically incorrect or infrequent sentence forms. It is inspired by a computational neuroscience model that we developed previously. The current system is still a proof-of-concept version of a future neurobiologically more plausible neural network model. Hence, the resulting system postprocesses sentence hypotheses of state-of-the-art speech recognition systems, producing in-domain words in 100% of the cases, syntactically and grammatically correct hypotheses in 90.319% of the cases. Moreover, it reduces the Word Error Rate to 11.038%.
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hal-01558462 , version 1 (07-07-2017)
hal-01558462 , version 2 (07-07-2017)

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Johannes Twiefel, Xavier Hinaut, Stefan Wermter. Syntactic Reanalysis in Language Models for Speech Recognition. 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), Sep 2017, Lisbon, France. ⟨hal-01558462v1⟩
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