04/07/2020

Improving Disfluency Detection by Self-Training a Self-Attentive Model

Paria Jamshid Lou, Mark Johnson

Keywords: Disfluency Detection, joint parsing, Self-Attentive Model, Self-attentive parsers

Abstract: Self-attentive neural syntactic parsers using contextualized word embeddings (e.g. ELMo or BERT) currently produce state-of-the-art results in joint parsing and disfluency detection in speech transcripts. Since the contextualized word embeddings are pre-trained on a large amount of unlabeled data, using additional unlabeled data to train a neural model might seem redundant. However, we show that self-training --- a semi-supervised technique for incorporating unlabeled data --- sets a new state-of-the-art for the self-attentive parser on disfluency detection, demonstrating that self-training provides benefits orthogonal to the pre-trained contextualized word representations. We also show that ensembling self-trained parsers provides further gains for disfluency detection.

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