Automatic Speech and Speaker Recognition: Large Margin and Kernel Methods Book

I Foundations 1

1 Introduction Samy Bengio Bengio, Samy Joseph Keshet Keshet, Joseph 3

2 Theory and Practice of Support Vector Machines Optimization Shai Shalev-Shwartz Shalev-Shwartz, Shai Nathan Srebo Srebo, Nathan 11

3 From Binary Classification to Categorial Prediction Koby Crammer Crammer, Koby 27

II Acoustic Modeling 51

4 A Large Margin Algorithm for Forced Alignment Joseph Keshet Keshet, Joseph Shai Shalev-Shwartz Shalev-Shwartz, Shai Yomm Singer Singer, Yomm Dan Chazan Chazan, Dan 53

5 A Kernel Wrapper for Phoneme Sequence Recognition Joseph Keshet Keshet, Joseph Dan Chazan Chazan, Dan 69

6 Augmented Statistical Models: Using Dynamic Kernels for Acoustic Models Mark J. F. Gales Gales, Mark J. F. 83

7 Large Margin Training of Continuous Density Hidden Markov Models Fei Sha Fei, Sha Lawrence K. Saul Saul, Lawrence K. 101

III Language Modeling 115

8 A Survey of Discriminative Language Modeling Approaches for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Brian Roark Roark, Brian 117

9 Large Margin Methods for Part-of-Speech Tagging Yasemin Altun Altun, Yasemin 139

10 A Proposal for a Kernel Based Algorithm for Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition Joseph Keshet Keshet, Joseph 159

IV Applications 173

11 Discriminative Keyword Spotting David Grangier Grangier, David Joseph Keshet Keshet, Joseph Samy Bengio Bengio, Samy 175

12 Kernel-based Text-independent Speaker Verification Johnny Mariethoz Mariethoz, Johnny Samy Bengio Bengio, Samy Yves Grandvalet Grandvalet, Yves 195

13 Spectral Clustering for Speech Separation Francis R. Bach Bach, Francis R. Michael I. Jordan Jordan, Michael I. 221

Index 251