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Interactive Pattern Recognition applied to Natural Language Processing

This thesis is about Pattern Recognition. In the last decades, huge efforts have been
made to develop automatic systems able to rival human capabilities in this field. Although
these systems achieve high productivity rates, they are not precise enough in
most situations. Humans, on the contrary, are very accurate but comparatively quite
slower. This poses an interesting question: the possibility of benefiting from both
worlds by constructing cooperative systems.
This thesis presents diverse contributions to this kind of collaborative approach.
The point is to improve the Pattern Recognition systems by properly introducing a
human operator into the system. We call this Interactive Pattern Recognition (IPR).
Firstly, a general proposal for IPR will be stated. The aim is to develop a framework
to easily derive new applications in this area. Some interesting IPR issues are
also introduced. Multi-modality or adaptive learning are examples of extensions that
can naturally fit into IPR.
In the second place, we will focus on a specific application. A novel method to
obtain high quality speech transcriptions (CAST, Computer Assisted Speech Transcription).
We will start by proposing a CAST formalization and, next, we will cope
with different implementation alternatives. Practical issues, as the system response
time, will be also taken into account, in order to allow for a practical implementation
of CAST. Word graphs and probabilistic error correcting parsing are tools that will
be used to reach an alternative formulation that allows for the use of CAST in a real
scenario.
Afterwards, a special application within the general IPR framework will be discussed.
This is intended to test the IPR capabilities in an extreme environment, where
no input pattern is available and the system only has access to the user actions to produce
a hypothesis. Specifically, we will focus here on providing assistance in the
problem of text generation. / Rodríguez Ruiz, L. (2010). Interactive Pattern Recognition applied to Natural Language Processing [Tesis doctoral]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/8479

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:upv.es/oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/8479
Date26 July 2010
CreatorsRodríguez Ruiz, Luis
ContributorsVidal Ruiz, Enrique, García Varea, Ismael, Universitat Politècnica de València. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación - Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació
PublisherUniversitat Politècnica de València
Source SetsUniversitat Politècnica de València
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
SourceRiunet
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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