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Publication
ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Paper
Use of non-negative matrix factorization for language model adaptation in a lecture transcription task
Abstract
This paper introduces the Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Language Model adaptation. This approach is an alternative to Latent Semantic Analysis based Language Modeling using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) with several benefits. A new method, which does not require an explicit document segmentation of the training corpus is presented as well. This method resulted in a perplexity reduction of 16% on a database of biology lecture transcriptions.