A new algorithm for the estimation of hidden Markov model parameters
- 6 January 2003
- conference paper
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- No. 15206149,p. 493-497
- https://doi.org/10.1109/icassp.1988.196627
Abstract
Discusses the problem of estimating the parameter values of hidden Markov word models for speech recognition. The authors argue that maximum-likelihood estimation of the parameters does not lead to values which maximize recognition accuracy and describe an alternative estimation procedure called corrective training which is aimed at minimizing the number of recognition errors. Corrective training is similar to a well-known error-correcting training procedure for linear classifiers and works by iteratively adjusting the parameter values so as to make correct words more probable and incorrect words less probable. There are also strong parallels between corrective training and maximum mutual information estimation. They do not prove that the corrective training algorithm converges, but experimental evidence suggests that it does, and that it leads to significantly fewer recognition errors than maximum likelihood estimation.Keywords
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