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Jáchym Kolář and Yang Liu and Elizabeth Shriberg : Speaker adaptation of language and prosodic models for automatic dialog act segmentation of speech . Speech Communication, vol. 52, p. 236-245, 2010.

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Abstract

Speaker-dependent modeling has a long history in speech recognition, but has received less attention in speech understanding. This study explores speaker-specific modeling for the task of automatic segmentation of speech into dialog acts (DAs), using a linear combination of speaker-dependent and speaker-independent language and prosodic models. Data come from 20 frequent speakers in the ICSI meeting corpus; adaptation data per speaker ranges from 5k to 115k words. We compare performance for both reference transcripts and automatic speech recognition output. We find that: (1) speaker adaptation in this domain results both in a significant overall improvement and in improvements for many individual speakers, (2) the magnitude of improvement for individual speakers does not depend on the amount of adaptation data, and (3) language and prosodic models differ both in degree of improvement, and in relative benefit for specific DA classes. These results suggest important future directions for speaker-specific modeling in spoken language understanding tasks.

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Title: Speaker adaptation of language and prosodic models for automatic dialog act segmentation of speech
Author: Jáchym Kolář ; Yang Liu ; Elizabeth Shriberg
Language: Czech
Date of publication: 1 Mar 2010
Year: 2010
Type of publication: Papers in journals
Title of journal or book: Speech Communication
Číslo vydání: 52
Page: 236 - 245
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Keywords

Spoken language understanding, Dialog act segmentation, Speaker adaptation, Prosody modeling, Language modeling

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{JachymKolar_2010_Speakeradaptationof,
 author = {J\'{a}chym Kol\'{a}\v{r} and Yang Liu and Elizabeth Shriberg},
 title = {Speaker adaptation of language and prosodic models for automatic dialog act segmentation of speech},
 year = {2010},
 journal = {Speech Communication},
 volume = {52},
 pages = {236-245},
 note = {Available Online},
 url = {http://www.kky.zcu.cz/en/publications/JachymKolar_2010_Speakeradaptationof},
}