A spectral learning algorithm for finite state transducers

B Balle, A Quattoni, X Carreras - Joint European Conference on Machine …, 2011 - Springer
Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2011Springer
Abstract Finite-State Transducers (FSTs) are a popular tool for modeling paired input-output
sequences, and have numerous applications in real-world problems. Most training
algorithms for learning FSTs rely on gradient-based or EM optimizations which can be
computationally expensive and suffer from local optima issues. Recently, Hsu et al.[13]
proposed a spectral method for learning Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) which is based on
an Observable Operator Model (OOM) view of HMMs. Following this line of work we present …
Abstract
Finite-State Transducers (FSTs) are a popular tool for modeling paired input-output sequences, and have numerous applications in real-world problems. Most training algorithms for learning FSTs rely on gradient-based or EM optimizations which can be computationally expensive and suffer from local optima issues. Recently, Hsu et al. [13] proposed a spectral method for learning Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) which is based on an Observable Operator Model (OOM) view of HMMs. Following this line of work we present a spectral algorithm to learn FSTs with strong PAC-style guarantees. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first result of this type for FST learning. At its core, the algorithm is simple, and scalable to large data sets. We present experiments that validate the effectiveness of the algorithm on synthetic and real data.
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