Named entity recognition (NER) is among SLU tasks that usually extract
semantic information from textual documents. Until now, NER from speech is made
through a pipeline process that consists in processing first an automatic
speech recognition (ASR) on the audio and then processing a NER on the ASR
outputs. Such approach has some disadvantages (error propagation, metric to
tune ASR systems sub-optimal in regards to the final task, reduced space search
at the ASR output level...) and it is known that more integrated approaches
outperform sequential ones, when they can be applied. In this paper, we present
a first study of end-to-end approach that directly extracts named entities from
speech, though a unique neural architecture. On a such way, a joint
optimization is able for both ASR and NER. Experiments are carried on French
data easily accessible, composed of data distributed in several evaluation
campaign. Experimental results show that this end-to-end approach provides
better results (F-measure=0.69 on test data) than a classical pipeline approach
to detect named entity categories (F-measure=0.65).

该研究通过一种端到端的神经架构，直接从语音中提取命名实体，并针对语音识别和命名实体识别进行联合优化，相较于传统的流水线方法，实现了更好的命名实体识别结果（测试数据的 F-measure=0.69）