TR-IT-0262 :1998.05

ARAKAWA Naoya

Preliminary Experiments for the Application of Contextual Information for Speech Recognition

Abstract:This report presents preliminary experiments for the application of contextual information to speech recognition. Contextual information here includes speaker roles, speech act types and particular expressions in utterances. The author reports on the statistical identification of 1) speech act types, 2) speech act type cue expressions, and 3) content words (non-functional words). The ATR corpus of travel conversation (SLDB, the Japanese data) was used for the experiments.