Building an ASR Error Robust Spoken Virtual Patient System in a Highly Class-Imbalanced Scenario Without Speech Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05183v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 15:13:33 GMT
• Title: Building an ASR Error Robust Spoken Virtual Patient System in a Highly Class-Imbalanced Scenario Without Speech Data
• Authors: Vishal Sunder, Prashant Serai, Eric Fosler-Lussier
• Abstract summary: A Virtual Patient (VP) is a powerful tool for training medical students to take patient histories. Our method shows significant improvements over strong baselines on the VP intent classification task at various word error rate settings.
• Score: 20.357369521268417
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: A Virtual Patient (VP) is a powerful tool for training medical students to take patient histories, where responding to a diverse set of spoken questions is essential to simulate natural conversations with a student. The performance of such a Spoken Language Understanding system (SLU) can be adversely affected by both the presence of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) errors in the test data and a high degree of class imbalance in the SLU training data. While these two issues have been addressed separately in prior work, we develop a novel two-step training methodology that tackles both these issues effectively in a single dialog agent. As it is difficult to collect spoken data from users without a functioning SLU system, our method does not rely on spoken data for training, rather we use an ASR error predictor to "speechify" the text data. Our method shows significant improvements over strong baselines on the VP intent classification task at various word error rate settings.

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