N-gram adaptation with dynamic interpolation coefficient using information retrieval technique

Abstract

This study presents an N-gram adaptation technique when additional text data for the adaptation do not exist. We use a language modeling approach to the information retrieval (IR) technique to collect the appropriate adaptation corpus from baseline text data. We propose to use a dynamic interpolation coefficient to merge the N-gram, where the interpolation coefficient is estimated from the word hypotheses obtained by segmenting the input speech. Experimental results show that the proposed adapted N-gram always has better performance than the background N-gram.