On the Role of Style in Parsing Speech with Neural Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.04288v1
• Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 22:44:19 GMT
• Title: On the Role of Style in Parsing Speech with Neural Models
• Authors: Trang Tran, Jiahong Yuan, Yang Liu, Mari Ostendorf
• Abstract summary: We show that neural approaches facilitate using written text to improve parsing of spontaneous speech. We find an asymmetric degradation from read vs. spontaneous speech.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The differences in written text and conversational speech are substantial; previous parsers trained on treebanked text have given very poor results on spontaneous speech. For spoken language, the mismatch in style also extends to prosodic cues, though it is less well understood. This paper re-examines the use of written text in parsing speech in the context of recent advances in neural language processing. We show that neural approaches facilitate using written text to improve parsing of spontaneous speech, and that prosody further improves over this state-of-the-art result. Further, we find an asymmetric degradation from read vs. spontaneous mismatch, with spontaneous speech more generally useful for training parsers.

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