Integrating Discrete and Neural Features via Mixed-feature Trans-dimensional Random Field Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2002.05967v2
• Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 05:23:31 GMT
• Title: Integrating Discrete and Neural Features via Mixed-feature Trans-dimensional Random Field Language Models
• Authors: Silin Gao, Zhijian Ou, Wei Yang and Huifang Xu
• Abstract summary: This paper develops a mixed-feature TRF LM and demonstrates its advantage in integrating discrete and neural features. Various LMs are trained over PTB and Google one-billion-word datasets, and evaluated in N-best list rescoring experiments for speech recognition. Compared to interpolating two separately trained models with discrete and neural features respectively, the performance of mixed-feature TRF LMs matches the best.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: There has been a long recognition that discrete features (n-gram features) and neural network based features have complementary strengths for language models (LMs). Improved performance can be obtained by model interpolation, which is, however, a suboptimal two-step integration of discrete and neural features. The trans-dimensional random field (TRF) framework has the potential advantage of being able to flexibly integrate a richer set of features. However, either discrete or neural features are used alone in previous TRF LMs. This paper develops a mixed-feature TRF LM and demonstrates its advantage in integrating discrete and neural features. Various LMs are trained over PTB and Google one-billion-word datasets, and evaluated in N-best list rescoring experiments for speech recognition. Among all single LMs (i.e. without model interpolation), the mixed-feature TRF LMs perform the best, improving over both discrete TRF LMs and neural TRF LMs alone, and also being significantly better than LSTM LMs. Compared to interpolating two separately trained models with discrete and neural features respectively, the performance of mixed-feature TRF LMs matches the best interpolated model, and with simplified one-step training process and reduced training time.

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