2008 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
3-Way Composition of Weighted Finite-State Transducers
verfasst von : Cyril Allauzen, Mehryar Mohri
Erschienen in: Implementation and Applications of Automata
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Composition of weighted transducers is a fundamental algorithm used in many applications, including for computing complex edit-distances between automata, or string kernels in machine learning, or to combine different components of a speech recognition, speech synthesis, or information extraction system. We present a generalization of the composition of weighted transducers, 3
-way composition
, which is dramatically faster in practice than the standard composition algorithm when combining more than two transducers. The worst-case complexity of our algorithm for composing three transducers
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