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INTERSPEECH 2015
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The standard metric to evaluate automatic speech recognition (ASR)
systems is the word error rate (WER). WER has proven very useful in
stand-alone ASR systems. Nowadays, these systems are often embedded
in complex natural language processing systems to perform tasks like
speech translation, man-machine dialogue, or information retrieval
from speech. This exacerbates the need for the speech processing community
to design a new evaluation metric to estimate the quality of automatic
transcriptions within their larger applicative context.
We introduce a new
measure to evaluate ASR in the context of named entity recognition,
which makes use of a probabilistic model to estimate the risk of ASR
errors inducing downstream errors in named entity detection. Our evaluation,
on the ETAPE data, shows that ATENE achieves a higher correlation than
WER between the performances in named entities recognition and in automatic
speech transcription.
Bibliographic reference. Jannet, Mohamed Ameur Ben / Galibert, Olivier / Adda-Decker, Martine / Rosset, Sophie (2015): "How to evaluate ASR output for named entity recognition?", In INTERSPEECH-2015, 1289-1293.