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Gram-CTC: Automatic Unit Selection and Target Decomposition for Sequence Labelling

Hairong Liu, Zhenyao Zhu, Xiangang Li, Sanjeev Satheesh

Abstract

Most existing sequence labelling models rely on a fixed decomposition of a target sequence into a sequence of basic units. These methods suffer from two major drawbacks: $1$) the set of basic units is fixed, such as the set of words, characters or phonemes in speech recognition, and $2$) the decomposition of target sequences is fixed. These drawbacks usually result in sub-optimal performance of modeling sequences. In this paper, we extend the popular CTC loss criterion to alleviate these limitations, and propose a new loss function called

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v70-liu17f,
  title = 	 {{G}ram-{CTC}: Automatic Unit Selection and Target Decomposition for Sequence Labelling},
  author =       {Hairong Liu and Zhenyao Zhu and Xiangang Li and Sanjeev Satheesh},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {2188--2197},
  year = 	 {2017},
  editor = 	 {Precup, Doina and Teh, Yee Whye},
  volume = 	 {70},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  month = 	 {06--11 Aug},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/liu17f/liu17f.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v70/liu17f.html},
  abstract = 	 {Most existing sequence labelling models rely on a fixed decomposition of a target sequence into a sequence of basic units. These methods suffer from two major drawbacks: $1$) the set of basic units is fixed, such as the set of words, characters or phonemes in speech recognition, and $2$) the decomposition of target sequences is fixed. These drawbacks usually result in sub-optimal performance of modeling sequences. In this paper, we extend the popular CTC loss criterion to alleviate these limitations, and propose a new loss function called
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