N-BEST SEARCH


N-best Decoding

  • Similar to Viterbi
  • Generate list of best possible hypotheses
  • Re-evaluate list with knowledge sources

  • Issues

  • Advantage --- Allows diverse knowledge sources to choose the most optimal hypothesis
  • Problem --- Favors shorter hypotheses
  • Sub-optimal modifications alleviate problem

  • Lattice N-best Search

  • First pass --- Create lattice of possible hypotheses
  • Second pass --- Generate N-best hypotheses