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20172023
most citedMERT: Acoustic Music Understanding Model with Large-Scale Self-supervised Training

28 citations · 38 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.SD2023★ 2 cited

On the Effectiveness of Speech Self-supervised Learning for Music

Yinghao Ma, Ruibin Yuan, Yizhi Li +12

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has shown promising results in various speech and natural language processing applications. However, its efficacy in music information retrieval (MIR…

cs.CL2023

Leveraging Cross-Utterance Context For ASR Decoding

Robert Flynn, Anton Ragni

While external language models (LMs) are often incorporated into the decoding stage of automated speech recognition systems, these models usually operate with limited context. Cros…

cs.SD2023★ 28 cited

MERT: Acoustic Music Understanding Model with Large-Scale Self-supervised Training

Yizhi Li, Ruibin Yuan, Ge Zhang +17

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for training generalisable models on large-scale data in the fields of vision, text, and speech. Althoug…

cs.SD2022★ 2 cited

MAP-Music2Vec: A Simple and Effective Baseline for Self-Supervised Music Audio Representation Learning

Yizhi Li, Ruibin Yuan, Ge Zhang +11

The deep learning community has witnessed an exponentially growing interest in self-supervised learning (SSL). However, it still remains unexplored how to build a framework for lea…

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

HERB: Measuring Hierarchical Regional Bias in Pre-trained Language Models

Yizhi Li, Ge Zhang, Bohao Yang +4

Fairness has become a trending topic in natural language processing (NLP), which addresses biases targeting certain social groups such as genders and religions. However, regional b…

eess.AS2021★ 1 cited

Approximate Fixed-Points in Recurrent Neural Networks

Zhengxiong Wang, Anton Ragni

Recurrent neural networks are widely used in speech and language processing. Due to dependency on the past, standard algorithms for training these models, such as back-propagation…

cs.CL2021

Continuous representations of intents for dialogue systems

Sindre André Jacobsen, Anton Ragni

Intent modelling has become an important part of modern dialogue systems. With the rapid expansion of practical dialogue systems and virtual assistants, such as Amazon Alexa, Apple…

eess.AS2019

Confidence Estimation for Black Box Automatic Speech Recognition Systems Using Lattice Recurrent Neural Networks

Alexandros Kastanos, Anton Ragni, Mark Gales

Recently, there has been growth in providers of speech transcription services enabling others to leverage technology they would not normally be able to use. As a result, speech-ena…

eess.AS2018

Confidence Estimation and Deletion Prediction Using Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks

Anton Ragni, Qiujia Li, Mark Gales +1

The standard approach to assess reliability of automatic speech transcriptions is through the use of confidence scores. If accurate, these scores provide a flexible mechanism to fl…

eess.AS2018

Bi-Directional Lattice Recurrent Neural Networks for Confidence Estimation

Qiujia Li, Preben Ness, Anton Ragni +1

The standard approach to mitigate errors made by an automatic speech recognition system is to use confidence scores associated with each predicted word. In the simplest case, these…

cs.SD2018

Phonetic and Graphemic Systems for Multi-Genre Broadcast Transcription

Yu Wang, Xie Chen, Mark Gales +2

State-of-the-art English automatic speech recognition systems typically use phonetic rather than graphemic lexicons. Graphemic systems are known to perform less well for English as…

cs.CL2017

Future Word Contexts in Neural Network Language Models

Xie Chen, Xunying Liu, Anton Ragni +2

Recently, bidirectional recurrent network language models (bi-RNNLMs) have been shown to outperform standard, unidirectional, recurrent neural network language models (uni-RNNLMs)…