Abstract
We present a method for named entity extraction from word lattices produced by a speech recogniser. Previous work by others on named entity extraction from speech has used either a manual transcript or 1-best recogniser output. We describe how a single Viterbi search can recover both the named entity sequence and the corresponding word sequence from a word lattice, and further that it is possible to trade off an increase in word error rate for improved named entity extraction.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Eurospeech 2003 - Interspeech 2003 |
| Subtitle of host publication | 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology |
| Publisher | International Speech Communication Association |
| Pages | 1265-1268 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Print) | ISSN: 1990-9772 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2003 |