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This paper presents a comparative study of two discriminative methods, i.e., Rival Penalized Competitive Learning (RPCL) and Minimum Classification Error (MCE), for the tasks of Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR). MCE aims at minimizing a smoothed sentence error on training data, while RPCL focus on avoiding misclassification through enforcing the learning of correct class and de-learning its best rival class. For a fair comparison, both the two discriminative mechanisms are implemented at state level. The LVCSR results show that both MCE and RPCL perform better than Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE), while RPCL has better discriminative and generative abilities than MCE.
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Pang, Z., Wu, X., Xu, L. (2012). A Comparative Study of RPCL and MCE Based Discriminative Training Methods for LVCSR. In: Zhang, Y., Zhou, ZH., Zhang, C., Li, Y. (eds) Intelligent Science and Intelligent Data Engineering. IScIDE 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7202. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31919-8_4
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