Combined models for topic spotting and topic-dependent language modeling

A 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 keyword unigrams and distribution obtained from the content of a cache memory. Experimental result on topic classification using a corpus of 60 Mword 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.