Lattice WER and oracle

Andreas Stolcke stolcke at speech.sri.com
Fri Jul 28 16:21:12 PDT 2006


In message <9749FF5BC5DC1C48A2D7EEB08AB1CF611CCF0C at ntmail.pc.itc.it>you wrote:
> dear Andreas,
> I would ask if there is a parameter of lattice-tool (1.50beta)
> to get the path which gives the minimum WER (and not only this score).
> 
> If not, do tou think could be difficult adding this feature?

If you just need the word sequence on the path with the smaller word error,
that's straightforward to output.
The node/link sequence is not straightforward because the internal
representation of the lattice is not 1-to-1 with what you have 
in the file.

--Andreas 




More information about the SRILM-User mailing list