On Using Selectional Restriction in Language Models for Speech Recognition

dc.creatorUeberla, Joerg P.
dc.date1994-08-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:09:28Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:09:28Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper, we investigate the use of selectional restriction -- the constraints a predicate imposes on its arguments -- in a language model for speech recognition. We use an un-tagged corpus, followed by a public domain tagger and a very simple finite state machine to obtain verb-object pairs from unrestricted English text. We then measure the impact the knowledge of the verb has on the prediction of the direct object in terms of the perplexity of a cluster-based language model. The results show that even though a clustered bigram is more useful than a verb-object model, the combination of the two leads to an improvement over the clustered bigram model.
dc.descriptionfeedback is welcome to ueberla@cs.sfu.ca
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9408010
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9408010
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151049
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleOn Using Selectional Restriction in Language Models for Speech Recognition
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