End-to-End Hierarchical Language Identification System

Abstract

Recently, hierarchical language identification systems have shown significant improvement over single level systems in both closed and open set language identification tasks. However, developing such a system requires the features and classifier selection at each node in the hierarchical structure to be hand crafted. Motivated by the superior ability of end-to-end deep neural network architecture to jointly optimize the feature extraction and classification process, we propose a novel approach developing an end-to-end hierarchical language identification system. The proposed approach also demonstrates the in -built ability of the end-to-end hierarchical structure training that enables an out-of-set language model, without using any additional out-of-set language training data. Experiments are conducted on the NIST LRE 2015 data set. The overall results show relative improvements of 18.6% and 27.3% in terms of C avg in closed and open set tasks over the corresponding baseline systems.