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Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
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In this paper we outline our spoken document retrieval system based on the ABBOT speech recognizer and a text retrieval system based on Okapi term-weighting . ...
The system has been evaluated as part of the TREC-6 and TREC-7 spoken document retrieval evaluations and we report on the results of the TREC-7 evaluation based on a document collection of 100 hours of ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was supported by the ESPRIT Long Term Research Projects THISL (23495) and SPRACH (20077). ...
doi:10.1109/mmcs.1999.778655
dblp:conf/icmcs/Renals99
fatcat:w2kj4jma2vdkfgx5hr3xlj6htm
Robust spoken document retrieval methods for misrecognition and out-of-vocabulary keywords
2004
Systems and Computers in Japan
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This paper describes a Japanese spoken document retrieval (SDR) system that is robust for Out-of-Vocabulary (OOV) words. ...
Evaluation results show that the proposed technique is quite effective in robustly retrieving spoken documents. ...
Experiments in spoken document retrieval using Specification of models for LVCSR systems. The system structure for OOV keywords. ...
doi:10.1002/scj.10697
fatcat:liynm3th55hkpmexm7ovomr7qi
A speech interface for open-domain question-answering
2003
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics - ACL '03
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of errors, and an open-domain question-answering system, AnswerBus, which is freely available on the Web. ...
We describe a small evaluation of the effect of recognition errors on the precision of the answers returned and make some concrete recommendations for modifying a question-answering system for improving ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Stefan Rüger for his suggestions and moral support. Ed Schofield's research is supported by a Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Commission. ...
doi:10.3115/1075178.1075210
dblp:conf/acl/SchofieldZ03
fatcat:hfbcjhjroraf7djzsurkctxc54
Statistical Language Modelling
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2003
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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In a speech recognition system the role of the language model is to assign probabilities to word sequences. ...
occurrence rate of a word is not uniform, but varies between documents. ...
The Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) has been a forum for the evaluation of text retrieval systems for a variety of tasks including routing, filtering and spoken document retrieval. ...
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45115-0_4
fatcat:tyxdr6nv7jbhxkxtndi7f7qkra
Indexing and retrieval of broadcast news
2000
Speech Communication
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This paper describes a spoken document retrieval (SDR) system for British and North American Broadcast News. ...
The system is based on a connectionist large vocabulary speech recognizer and a probabilistic information retrieval system. ...
Acknowledgments This work was supported by ESPRIT Long Term Research Project THISL (EP23495). Thanks to Gary Cook for assistance with North American English broadcast speech ...
doi:10.1016/s0167-6393(00)00020-0
fatcat:wdj3zvhtkvb2zbbzcryqoqh2vy
Content-based access to spoken audio
2005
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
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One way to facilitate retrieval is by classifying content into categories. The last and perhaps the least explored phase deals with the delivery of the retrieved content to users. ...
We describe how the analysis, retrieval and delivery phases contribute making spoken audio content more accessible, and we outline a number of outstanding research issues. ...
Koumpis and an MSc and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. His research is in the areas of speech recognition, information access from spoken audio and models for multimodal data. ...
doi:10.1109/msp.2005.1511824
fatcat:a7p7ay3lmfen5brbmvqwoi6ete
Jan 2000 European Trip report: THISL and RESPITE
2017
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A report from meetings of the THISL (Thematic Indexing of Spoken Language) and RESPITE (Recognizing Speech by Partial Info. Techs.) European speech retrieval and recognition projects. ...
for Aurora
-other research, issues
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2
THISL
(Thematic Indexing of Spoken Language)
• Spoken document retrieval
of BBC Broadcast News
-automatic off-air recording of 3-6 hrs daily news
-ASR ...
Outline -(GMM system does not know they are phones) Aurora "Distributed SR" evaluation • 7 telecoms company submissions:-Tandem systems from OGI-ICSI-Qualcomm• Best features for transmission? ...
doi:10.7916/d84x5h0p
fatcat:lxriwfhftjdvllzxsakc74dj7e
Retrieval of broadcast news documents with the THISL system
Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP '98 (Cat. No.98CH36181)
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This paper describes the THISL system that participated in the TREC-7 evaluation, Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) Track, and presents the results obtained, together with some analysis. ...
The THISL system is based on the ABBOT speech recognition system and the thislIR text retrieval system. ...
The THISL spoken document retrieval system is based on the ABBOT large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer [1] and a probabilistic ranked text retrieval system. ...
doi:10.1109/icassp.1998.679707
dblp:conf/icassp/AbberleyRC98
fatcat:2o2ohirf5jboxnucy7lwcklk3u
The THISL SDR system at TREC-8
2017
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This paper describes the participation of the THISL group at the TREC-8 Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) track. ...
The THISL SDR system consists of the realtime version of the ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognition system and the THISLIR text retrieval system. ...
The THISL 1 spoken document retrieval system consists of the 'real time' version of the ABBOT large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer [2] and the THISLIR text retrieval system [3] . ...
doi:10.7916/d8fj2s36
fatcat:crz5utpn6nhq3g7gtc33dyzkga
European projects update
2017
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Report on European meetings of the Thematic Indexing of Spoken Language (THISL) and Recognition of Speech by Partial Information Techniques (RESPITE) projects. ...
project:
Using ASR (&c) to index BBC news archives
• ESCA workshop on Spoken Document
Retrieval (SDR) -April, Cambridge
-systems, IR/IE
-demos, including thislIR
• Current actions:
-finalize ...
Thisl final year planning meeting • Use artificial mixtures to train R xx → SNR map • 'Full combination' multistream needs weights:-p( q | a,b,c,d ) = ∑ S p( S ) . p( q | S,a,b,c,d )S ranges over 16 possible ...
doi:10.7916/d87p96nh
fatcat:2y46frmryjgb5fxlr5mkb4bawq
Web-assisted annotation, semantic indexing and search of television and radio news
2005
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '05
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The Rich News system, that can automatically annotate radio and television news with the aid of resources retrieved from the World Wide Web, is described. ...
The text and meta-data of the web pages is then used to create index documents for the stories in the original broadcasts, which are semantically annotated using the KIM knowledge management platform. ...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research for this paper was conducted as part of the European Union Sixth Framework Program projects PrestoSpace (FP6-507336) and SEKT (EU IST IP 2003-506826). ...
doi:10.1145/1060745.1060781
dblp:conf/www/DowmanTCP05
fatcat:s3u5pphtundlhd7towk6b5uxbi
An overview of Speech Recognition research at ICSI
2017
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Overview of speech recognition research at the International Computer Science Institute, and introduction to connectionist speech recognition. ...
• Information Retrieval (IR)
-TREC/MUC 'spoken documents'
-tolerant of word error rate, e.g.:
F0:
THE VERY EARLY RETURNS OF THE NICARAGUAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
SEEMED TO FADE BEFORE THE LOCAL ...
WER ratio
plp + msg
Feature combo
74.1%
plp + msg
Prob. combo
63.0%
plp + msg
HTK on probs.
51.6%
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Spoken document retrieval
• Based on DARPA/NIST Broadcast News
• Training material ...
doi:10.7916/d8n01frj
fatcat:rh7ztx52wfdglkr67rsrcenmle
A unified language model for large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of Turkish
2006
Signal Processing
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The proposed model resulted in letter error rates (LER's) of approximately 28% for a speaker independent system and 20% for a speaker dependent system. ...
A combined model is proposed which aims to produce a balance between the OOV rate and the amount of phoneme sequence constraints on recognition units. ...
Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Dr. Murat Saraclar for the discussions and Hacettepe University Radiology Department for their help in supplying radiological reports. ...
doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2005.12.002
fatcat:kvh2k6pr5feg3nkoenuxnnifra
Cohort Profile: the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)
2014
International Journal of Epidemiology
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The HRS has been a leading force for rapid release of data while simultaneously protecting the confidentiality of respondents. ...
The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a nationally representative longitudinal survey of more than 37 000 individuals over age 50 in 23 000 households in the USA. ...
Acknowledgments HRS gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the study participants who have given countless hours of their time to make this study what it is. Conflicts of interest: None declared. ...
doi:10.1093/ije/dyu067
pmid:24671021
pmcid:PMC3997380
fatcat:7jb323gp5jg7xpddbgkuwyb4xu
Speech Recognition at ICSI: Broadcast News and beyond
2017
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Overview of the International Computer Science Institute's efforts, in collaboration with European partners, to prepare a system to submit to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and National Institute ...
• Information Retrieval (IR)
-TREC/MUC 'spoken documents'
-tolerant of word error rate, e.g.:
F0:
THE VERY EARLY RETURNS OF THE NICARAGUAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
SEEMED TO FADE BEFORE THE LOCAL ...
Indexing of Spoken Language
(Thisl)
• EC collaboration, BBC providing data
• > 500 hr archive data
• IR is key factor
-stop lists
-weighting schemes
-query expansion
Control
Text
Audio ...
doi:10.7916/d8qr55c1
fatcat:puihxcd2o5f33o2dgncyz4schm
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