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Spoken SQuAD: A Study of Mitigating the Impact of Speech Recognition Errors on Listening Comprehension

1 Apr 2018arXiv:1804.00320archive 2025-07-28

Chia-Hsuan Li, Szu-Lin Wu, Chi-Liang Liu, Hung-Yi Lee

Reading comprehension has been widely studied. One of the most representative reading comprehension tasks is Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD), on which machine is already comparable with human. On the other hand, accessing large collections of multimedia or spoken content is much more difficult and time-consuming than plain text content for humans. It's therefore highly attractive to develop machines which can automatically understand spoken content. In this paper, we propose a new listening comprehension task - Spoken SQuAD. On the new task, we found that speech recognition errors have catastrophic impact on machine comprehension, and several approaches are proposed to mitigate the impact.

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Question AnsweringReading ComprehensionSpeech RecognitionSpoken Language Understandingspeech-recognition

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Spoken Language Understanding Spoken-SQuAD Baseline F1 score 58.71 #4 of 4 Archive leaderboard report

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