Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding

Sherif Abdou; Michael Scordilis

Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding

Sherif Abdou, Michael Scordilis

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

In spoken dialog systems it is often the case that the sentence produced by the decoder with the highest recognition probability may not be the best choice for extracting the intended concepts. Lower ranking hypotheses may present better alternatives. In this paper, we show how to integrate multiple knowledge sources for the decision of selecting one of these hypotheses. A scoring schema combining information from the recognizer output, the parser, an utterance type classifier and dialog context is used. The scaling weights of the combined scores are determined automatically by an optimization procedure. Finally, we show the results of testing this approach and its performance compared to the approach of selecting the best recognition hypothesis.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Editors	Borge Lindberg, Henrik Benner, Paul Dalsgaard, Zheng-Hua Tan
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association
Pages	1783-1786
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	8790834100, 9788790834104
State	Published - Jan 1 2001
Event	7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001 - Aalborg, Denmark Duration: Sep 3 2001 → Sep 7 2001

Publication series

Name	EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Other

Other	7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001
Country	Denmark
City	Aalborg
Period	9/3/01 → 9/7/01

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Communication
Linguistics and Language
Computer Science Applications
Software

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Abdou, S., & Scordilis, M. (2001). Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding. In B. Lindberg, H. Benner, P. Dalsgaard, & Z-H. Tan (Eds.), EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (pp. 1783-1786). (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology). International Speech Communication Association.

Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding. / Abdou, Sherif; Scordilis, Michael.

EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. ed. / Borge Lindberg; Henrik Benner; Paul Dalsgaard; Zheng-Hua Tan. International Speech Communication Association, 2001. p. 1783-1786 (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abdou, S & Scordilis, M 2001, Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding. in B Lindberg, H Benner, P Dalsgaard & Z-H Tan (eds), EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, International Speech Communication Association, pp. 1783-1786, 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology - Scandinavia, EUROSPEECH 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, 9/3/01.

Abdou S, Scordilis M. Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding. In Lindberg B, Benner H, Dalsgaard P, Tan Z-H, editors, EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. International Speech Communication Association. 2001. p. 1783-1786. (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology).

Abdou, Sherif ; Scordilis, Michael. / Integrating multiple knowledge sources for improved speech understanding. EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology. editor / Borge Lindberg ; Henrik Benner ; Paul Dalsgaard ; Zheng-Hua Tan. International Speech Communication Association, 2001. pp. 1783-1786 (EUROSPEECH 2001 - SCANDINAVIA - 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology).

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