LECTURE 41: DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING

• Objectives:
  
  
  • Mutual Information
    
    
  • Maximum Mutual Information Estimation
    
    
  • Minimum Error Rate Estimation

This lecture follows the course textbook:

X. Huang, A. Acero, and H.W. Hon, Spoken Language Processing - A Guide to Theory, Algorithm, and System Development, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, USA, ISBN: 0-13-022616-5, 2001.

Another good source is:

A. Ganapathiraju, Support Vector Machines for Speech Recognition, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mississippi State University, January 2002.