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Pre-trained language models (PLMs) demonstrate excellent abilities to understand texts in the generic domain while struggling in a specific domain. Although continued pre-training on a large domain-specific corpus is effective, it is costly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Shizhe Diao , Tianyang Xu , Ruijia Xu , Jiawei Wang , Tong Zhang

Statistical language models frequently suffer from a lack of training data. This problem can be alleviated by clustering, because it reduces the number of free parameters that need to be trained. However, clustered models have the following…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Joerg P. Ueberla

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for n-gram language model adaptation under the minimum discrimination information (MDI) principle, where an out-of-domain language model is adapted to satisfy the constraints of marginal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Ruizhe Huang , Ke Li , Ashish Arora , Dan Povey , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Although n-gram language models (LMs) have been outperformed by the state-of-the-art neural LMs, they are still widely used in speech recognition due to its high efficiency in inference. In this paper, we demonstrate that n-gram LM can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Yiren Wang , Hongzhao Huang , Zhe Liu , Yutong Pang , Yongqiang Wang , ChengXiang Zhai , Fuchun Peng

The remarkable success of large language models has been driven by dense models trained on massive unlabeled, unstructured corpora. These corpora typically contain text from diverse, heterogeneous sources, but information about the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Alexandra Chronopoulou , Matthew E. Peters , Jesse Dodge

Fine-tuning a language model on a new domain is standard practice for domain adaptation. However, it can be infeasible when it comes to modern large-scale language models such as GPT-3, which can only be accessed through APIs, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Yangsibo Huang , Daogao Liu , Zexuan Zhong , Weijia Shi , Yin Tat Lee

Machine translation models struggle when translating out-of-domain text, which makes domain adaptation a topic of critical importance. However, most domain adaptation methods focus on fine-tuning or training the entire or part of the model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Pedro Henrique Martins , Zita Marinho , André F. T. Martins

Although a machine translation model trained with a large in-domain parallel corpus achieves remarkable results, it still works poorly when no in-domain data are available. This situation restricts the applicability of machine translation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Makoto Morishita , Jun Suzuki , Masaaki Nagata

This paper presents a novel method of generating and applying hierarchical, dynamic topic-based language models. It proposes and evaluates new cluster generation, hierarchical smoothing and adaptive topic-probability estimation techniques.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Radu Florian , David Yarowsky

Semi-supervised domain adaptation is a technique to build a classifier for a target domain by modifying a classifier in another (source) domain using many unlabeled samples and a small number of labeled samples from the target domain. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Shota Harada , Ryoma Bise , Kengo Araki , Akihiko Yoshizawa , Kazuhiro Terada , Mariyo Kurata , Naoki Nakajima , Hiroyuki Abe , Tetsuo Ushiku , Seiichi Uchida

Domain-specific adaptation is critical to maximizing the performance of pre-trained language models (PLMs) on one or multiple targeted tasks, especially under resource-constrained use cases, such as edge devices. However, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Peter Schafhalter , Shun Liao , Yanqi Zhou , Chih-Kuan Yeh , Arun Kandoor , James Laudon

This paper proposes a way to improve the performance of existing algorithms for text classification in domains with strong language semantics. We propose a domain adaptation layer learns weights to combine a generic and a domain specific…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Prathusha K Sarma , Yingyu Liang , William A Sethares

Unsupervised domain adaptation aiming to learn a specific task for one domain using another domain data has emerged to address the labeling issue in supervised learning, especially because it is difficult to obtain massive amounts of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Jaeyoon Yoo , Changhwa Park , Yongjun Hong , Sungroh Yoon

Many works proposed methods to improve the performance of Neural Machine Translation (NMT) models in a domain/multi-domain adaptation scenario. However, an understanding of how NMT baselines represent text domain information internally is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Maksym Del , Elizaveta Korotkova , Mark Fishel

Language models (LM) for interactive speech recognition systems are trained on large amounts of data and the model parameters are optimized on past user data. New application intents and interaction types are released for these systems over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Ankur Gandhe , Ariya Rastrow , Bjorn Hoffmeister

Domain adaptation seeks to leverage the abundant label information in a source domain to improve classification performance in a target domain with limited labels. While the field has seen extensive methodological development, its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-31 Elif Vural , Huseyin Karaca

We present a structured overview of adaptation algorithms for neural network-based speech recognition, considering both hybrid hidden Markov model / neural network systems and end-to-end neural network systems, with a focus on speaker…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Peter Bell , Joachim Fainberg , Ondrej Klejch , Jinyu Li , Steve Renals , Pawel Swietojanski

Measuring the similarity between two different sentential arguments is an important task in argument mining. However, one of the challenges in this field is that the dataset must be annotated using expertise in a variety of topics, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-22 ChaeHun Park , Sangwoo Seo

Large pre-trained models have achieved great success in many natural language processing tasks. However, when they are applied in specific domains, these models suffer from domain shift and bring challenges in fine-tuning and online serving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Yunzhi Yao , Shaohan Huang , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Furu Wei

When only limited target domain data is available, domain adaptation could be used to promote performance of deep neural network (DNN) acoustic model by leveraging well-trained source model and target domain data. However, suffering from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-06 Han Zhu , Jiangjiang Zhao , Yuling Ren , Li Wang , Pengyuan Zhang