Method and system for using rule-based knowledge to build a class-based domain specific statistical language model

摘要

A method and system for providing a class-based statistical language model representation from rule-based knowledge is disclosed. The class-based language model is generated from a statistical representation of a class-based rule net. A class-based rule net is generated using the domain-related rules with words replaced with their corresponding class-tags that are manually defined. The class-based statistical representation from the class-based rule net is combined with a class-based statistical representation from a statistical language model to generate a language model. The language model is enhanced by smoothing/adapting with general-purpose and/or domain-related corpus for use as the final language model. A two-pass search algorithm is applied for speech decoding.