Exploiting non-local features for spoken language understanding

  • Authors:
  • Minwoo Jeong;Gary Geunbae Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea;Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, Korea

  • Venue:
  • COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we exploit non-local features as an estimate of long-distance dependencies to improve performance on the statistical spoken language understanding (SLU) problem. The statistical natural language parsers trained on text perform unreliably to encode non-local information on spoken language. An alternative method we propose is to use trigger pairs that are automatically extracted by a feature induction algorithm. We describe a light version of the inducer in which a simple modification is efficient and successful. We evaluate our method on an SLU task and show an error reduction of up to 27% over the base local model.