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Neural Network Language Modeling with Letter-based Features and Importance Sampling
Hainan Xu, Ke Li, Yiming Wang, Jian Wang, Shiyin Kang, Xie Chen, Daniel Povey, Sanjeev Khudanpur
In this paper we describe an extension of the Kaldi software toolkit to support neural-based language modeling, intended for use in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and related tasks. We combine the use of subword features (letter n-grams) and one-hot encoding of frequent words so that the models can handle large vocabularies containing infrequent words. We propose a new objective function that allows for training of unnormalized probabilities. An importance sampling based method is supported to speed up training when the vocabulary is large. Experimental results on five corpora show that Kaldi-RNNLM rivals other recurrent neural network language model toolkits both on performance and training speed.
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| Task | Dataset | Model | Metric | Value | Rank at snapshot | Leaderboard | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech test-clean | tdnn + chain + rnnlm rescoring | Word Error Rate (WER) | 3.06 | #47 of 64 | Archive leaderboard | report |
| Speech Recognition | LibriSpeech test-other | tdnn + chain + rnnlm rescoring | Word Error Rate (WER) | 7.63 | #42 of 53 | Archive leaderboard | report |
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