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CAPITALIZATION NORMALIZATION FOR LANGUAGE MODELING WITH AN ACCURATE AND EFFICIENT HIERARCHICAL RNN MODEL
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- Hao Zhang
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- 6 May 2022 - 11:38am
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- 2022
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- Hao Zhang
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- SPE-4.1
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Capitalization normalization (truecasing) is the task of restoring the correct case (uppercase or lowercase) of noisy text. We propose a fast, accurate and compact two-level hierarchical word-and-character-based recurrent neural network model. We use the truecaser to normalize user-generated text in a Federated Learning framework for language modeling. A case-aware language model trained on this normalized text achieves the same perplexity as a model trained on text with gold capitalization. In a real user A/B experiment, we demonstrate that the improvement translates to reduced prediction error rates in a virtual keyboard application. Similarly, in an ASR language model fusion experiment, we show reduction in uppercase character error rate and word error rate.