Acoustic Space Dimensionality Selection and Combination using the Maximum Entropy Principle

Yasser H. Abdel-Haleem; Steve Renals; Neil D. Lawrence

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Acoustic Space Dimensionality Selection and Combination using the Maximum Entropy Principle

Yasser H. Abdel-Haleem, Steve Renals, Neil D. Lawrence

International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2004.

Abstract

In this paper we propose a discriminative approach to acoustic space dimensionality selection based on maximum entropy modelling. We form a set of constraints by composing the acoustic space with the space of phone classes, and use a continuous feature formulation of maximum entropy modelling to select an optimal feature set. The suggested approach has two steps: (1) the selection of the best acoustic space that efficiently and economically represents the acoustic data and its variability; (2) the combination of selected acoustic features in the maximum entropy framework to estimate the posterior probabilities over the phonetic labels given the acoustic input. Specific contributions of this paper include a parameter estimation algorithm (generalized improved iterative scaling) that enables the use of negative features, the parameterization of constraint functions using Gaussian mixture models, and experimental results using the TIMIT database.

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@InProceedings{AbdelHaleem:acoustic04,
  title = 	 {Acoustic Space Dimensionality Selection and Combination using the Maximum Entropy Principle},
  author = 	 {Abdel-Haleem, Yasser H. and Renals, Steve and Lawrence, Neil D.},
  booktitle = 	 {International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing},
  year = 	 {2004},
  pdf = 	 {https://lawrennd.github.io/publications/files/icassp04.pdf},
  url = 	 {/publications/abdelhaleem-acoustic04.html},
  abstract = 	 {In this paper we propose a discriminative approach to acoustic space dimensionality selection based on maximum entropy modelling. We form a set of constraints by composing the acoustic space with the space of phone classes, and use a continuous feature formulation of maximum entropy modelling to select an optimal feature set. The suggested approach has two steps: (1) the selection of the best acoustic space that efficiently and economically represents the acoustic data and its variability; (2) the combination of selected acoustic features in the maximum entropy framework to estimate the posterior probabilities over the phonetic labels given the acoustic input. Specific contributions of this paper include a parameter estimation algorithm (generalized improved iterative scaling) that enables the use of negative features, the parameterization of constraint functions using Gaussian mixture models, and experimental results using the TIMIT database.}
}

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AU  - Steve Renals
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BT  - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
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AB  - In this paper we propose a discriminative approach to acoustic space dimensionality selection based on maximum entropy modelling. We form a set of constraints by composing the acoustic space with the space of phone classes, and use a continuous feature formulation of maximum entropy modelling to select an optimal feature set. The suggested approach has two steps: (1) the selection of the best acoustic space that efficiently and economically represents the acoustic data and its variability; (2) the combination of selected acoustic features in the maximum entropy framework to estimate the posterior probabilities over the phonetic labels given the acoustic input. Specific contributions of this paper include a parameter estimation algorithm (generalized improved iterative scaling) that enables the use of negative features, the parameterization of constraint functions using Gaussian mixture models, and experimental results using the TIMIT database.
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Abdel-Haleem, Y.H., Renals, S. & Lawrence, N.D.. (2004). Acoustic Space Dimensionality Selection and Combination using the Maximum Entropy Principle. International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Available from /publications/abdelhaleem-acoustic04.html.