LARD: Large-scale Artificial Disfluency Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05041v1
• Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:02:36 GMT
• Title: LARD: Large-scale Artificial Disfluency Generation
• Authors: T. Passali, T. Mavropoulos, G. Tsoumakas, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis
• Abstract summary: We propose LARD, a method for generating complex and realistic artificial disfluencies with little effort. The proposed method can handle three of the most common types of disfluencies: repetitions, replacements and restarts. We release a new large-scale dataset with disfluencies that can be used on four different tasks.
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• Abstract: Disfluency detection is a critical task in real-time dialogue systems. However, despite its importance, it remains a relatively unexplored field, mainly due to the lack of appropriate datasets. At the same time, existing datasets suffer from various issues, including class imbalance issues, which can significantly affect the performance of the model on rare classes, as it is demonstrated in this paper. To this end, we propose LARD, a method for generating complex and realistic artificial disfluencies with little effort. The proposed method can handle three of the most common types of disfluencies: repetitions, replacements and restarts. In addition, we release a new large-scale dataset with disfluencies that can be used on four different tasks: disfluency detection, classification, extraction and correction. Experimental results on the LARD dataset demonstrate that the data produced by the proposed method can be effectively used for detecting and removing disfluencies, while also addressing limitations of existing datasets.

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