Parser adaptation via Householder transform

  • Authors:
  • Xiaoqiang Luo

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '00 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2000. on IEEE International Conference - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We propose a method of adapting a statistical parser using a special orthogonal transform, the Householder transform. Probability mass functions (pmf) in the parser are first mapped to unit sphere, then the Householder transform is applied, which maps a point in unit sphere to another point in unit sphere. The final model is obtained by mapping the transformed point in unit sphere back to simplex through a square map. The proposed method is tested on a semantic parser, and over 20% relative reduction of parse errors can be achieved.