N-Best ASR Transformer: Enhancing SLU Performance using Multiple ASR Hypotheses

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.06519v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 17:29:00 GMT
• Title: N-Best ASR Transformer: Enhancing SLU Performance using Multiple ASR Hypotheses
• Authors: Karthik Ganesan, Pakhi Bamdev, Jaivarsan B, Amresh Venugopal, Abhinav Tushar
• Abstract summary: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) parses speech into semantic structures like dialog acts and slots. We show that our approach significantly outperforms the prior state-of-the-art when subjected to the low data regime.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems parse speech into semantic structures like dialog acts and slots. This involves the use of an Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR) to transcribe speech into multiple text alternatives (hypotheses). Transcription errors, common in ASRs, impact downstream SLU performance negatively. Approaches to mitigate such errors involve using richer information from the ASR, either in form of N-best hypotheses or word-lattices. We hypothesize that transformer models learn better with a simpler utterance representation using the concatenation of the N-best ASR alternatives, where each alternative is separated by a special delimiter [SEP]. In our work, we test our hypothesis by using concatenated N-best ASR alternatives as the input to transformer encoder models, namely BERT and XLM-RoBERTa, and achieve performance equivalent to the prior state-of-the-art model on DSTC2 dataset. We also show that our approach significantly outperforms the prior state-of-the-art when subjected to the low data regime. Additionally, this methodology is accessible to users of third-party ASR APIs which do not provide word-lattice information.

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