Space-Efficient Representation of Entity-centric Query Language Models

no code implementations • 29 Jun 2022 • Christophe Van Gysel, Mirko Hannemann, Ernest Pusateri, Youssef Oualil, Ilya Oparin

Virtual assistants make use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) to help users answer entity-centric queries.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +1

Predicting Entity Popularity to Improve Spoken Entity Recognition by Virtual Assistants

no code implementations • 26 May 2020 • Christophe Van Gysel, Manos Tsagkias, Ernest Pusateri, Ilya Oparin

We focus on improving the effectiveness of a Virtual Assistant (VA) in recognizing emerging entities in spoken queries.

speech-recognition Speech Recognition

Connecting and Comparing Language Model Interpolation Techniques

no code implementations • 26 Aug 2019 • Ernest Pusateri, Christophe Van Gysel, Rami Botros, Sameer Badaskar, Mirko Hannemann, Youssef Oualil, Ilya Oparin

In this work, we uncover a theoretical connection between two language model interpolation techniques, count merging and Bayesian interpolation.

Language Modelling