Combinaison de modèles de langage pour l'identification de thèmes

National audienceA new statistical method for Language Modeling and spoken document classification is proposed. It is based on a mixture of topic dependent probabilities. Each topic dependent probability is in turn a mixture of n-gram probabilities and the probability of Kullback-Lieber (KL) distances between key-word unigrams and distribution obtained from the content of a cache memory. Experimental result on topic classification using a corpus of 60 Mwords from the French newspaper Le Monde show the excellent performance of the cache memory and its complementary role in providing different statistics for the decision process