Similarly with the CUHTK (WER 35.6%) and NIST-B1 (WER 33.8%) and Sheffield (WER 24.6 %) systems we obtained improvements of 1.6%, 0.39% and 0.05% respectively using the Simple Aligned method.
with increasing WER, the named entity word error rate increases significantly, and therefore the benefits of our method are more apparent in such situations.