Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Coden, Anni R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Brown, Eric W. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Srinivasan, Savitha (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2002.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2002.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2273
• Subjects: Information storage and retrieval.; Natural language processing (Computer science).; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Natural Language Processing (NLP).

This volume is based on a workshop held on September 13, 2001 in New Orleans, LA, USA as part of the24thAnnualInternationalACMSIGIRConferenceon ResearchandDevelopmentinInformationRetrieval.Thetitleoftheworkshop was: "Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications." Interestinspee...

Table of Contents:

• Traditional Information Retrieval Techniques
• Perspectives on Information Retrieval and Speech
• Spoken Document Pre-processing
• Capitalization Recovery for Text
• Adapting IR Techniques to Spoken Documents
• Clustering of Imperfect Transcripts Using a Novel Similarity Measure
• Extracting Keyphrases from Spoken Audio Documents
• Segmenting Conversations by Topic, Initiative, and Style
• Extracting Caller Information from Voicemail
• Techniques for Multi-media Collections
• Speech and Hand Transcribed Retrieval
• New Applications
• The Use of Speech Retrieval Systems: A Study Design
• Speech-Driven Text Retrieval: Using Target IR Collections for Statistical Language Model Adaptation in Speech Recognition
• WASABI: Framework for Real-Time Speech Analysis Applications (Demo).