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Exponential Language Models, Logistic Regression, and Semantic Coherence

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posted on 2003-11-01, 00:00 authored by Can Cai, Roni Rosenfeld, Larry Wasserman
ˆIn this paper, we modify the traditional trigram model by using utterance-level semantic coherence features in an exponential model. The semantic coherence features are collected by measuring the correlations among content-word pairs occurring in sentences of two corpora, the real corpus and a corpus generated by the baseline trigram model. The measure we use for estimating the semantic association of content word pairs is Yule's Q statistic. For our preliminary analysis, we have further simplified the modeling task by extracting a small set of statistics from each sentence-based Q statistics and applying them as features to the exponential model. We also simplified the process of obtaining the MLE solutions of the exponential models by approximating it with a logistic regression model. We account for the uncertainty in the estimates of Q by constructing confidence intervals. The new model results in a slight reduction in test-set perplexity. ŠŒ‹Ž

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