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Large Margin Training of Hidden Markov Models

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Shakir Mohamed .

Large Margin Training of Hidden Markov Models in Speech Recognition.

In particular, I will make first an introduction to automatic speech recognition followed by some popular approaches to train such systems (ML, MMIE ). Next I will highlight the main weaknesses of them and introduce some of the alternative training frameworks. Mainly I will focus on Large Margin Training applied to HMMs. Finally, I will give a description of the state of the art system used to transcribe broadcast news in three languages (English, Arabic and Mandarin) developed here at University of Cambridge.

The paper on the Large Margin Training:

Fei Sha, Lawrence K. Saul, “Large Margin Hidden Markov Models for Automatic Speech Recognition”, NIPS 2006 , http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips19/NIPS2006_0143.pdf

The corresponding PhD thesis containing sequential derivation of Large Margin Training algorithms for GMM , observable Markov Model and, finally, Hidden Markov Model:

Fei Sha, “Large Margin Training of Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition”, University of Pennsylvania, 2007. http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~feisha/pubs/thesis_tree.pdf

Short summary on Large Margin training of Gaussian Mixture Models:

Fei Sha, Lawrence K. Saul, ” Large Margin Gaussian Mixture Modeling for Phonetic Classification and Recognition”, Proc. ICASSP , 2006. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1660008&isnumber=34757

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