Dynamic long-distance dependency with conditional random fields
US9037460B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 28, 2012 |
| Grant date | May 19, 2015 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 22, 2032 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG10L15/197
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Dynamic features are utilized with CRFs to handle long-distance dependencies of output labels. The dynamic features present a probability distribution involved in explicit distance from/to a special output label that is pre-defined according to each application scenario. Besides the number of units in the segment (from the previous special output label to the current unit), the dynamic features may also include the sum of any basic features of units in the segment. Since the added dynamic features are involved in the distance from the previous specific label, the searching lattice associated with Viterbi searching is expanded to distinguish the nodes with various distances. The dynamic features may be used in a variety of different applications, such as Natural Language Processing, Text-To-Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition. For example, the dynamic features may be used to assist in prosodic break and pause prediction.
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