Construction of Chinese conversational corpora for spontaneous speech recognition and comparative study on the trilingual parallel corpora

Author

Hu, Xinhui ; Isotani, Ryosuke ; Nakamura, Satoshi

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Koganei, Japan

fYear

2009

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

59

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the development of Chinese conversational segmented and POS-tagged corpora currently used in the NICT/ATR speech-to-speech translation system. Over 500 K manually checked utterances provide 3.5 M words of Chinese corpora. As far as we know, they are the largest conversational textual corpora; in the domain of travel. A set of three parallel corpora is obtained with the corresponding pairs of Japanese and English words from which the Chinese words are translated. Based on these parallel corpora, we make an investigation on the statistics of each language, performances of language model and speech recognition, and find the differences among these languages. The problems and their solutions to the present Chinese corpora are also analyzed and discussed.

Keywords

natural language processing; speech recognition; Chinese conversational corpora; English words; Japanese words; NICT-ATR speech-to-speech translation system; POS-tagged corpora; corpus-based natural language processing; speech recognition; trilingual parallel corpora; Communications technology; Computational linguistics; Guidelines; Information science; Natural language processing; Natural languages; Speech processing; Speech recognition; Statistics; Stress;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Speech Database and Assessments, 2009 Oriental COCOSDA International Conference on

Conference_Location

Urumqi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4400-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4400-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSDA.2009.5278375

Filename

5278375