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Investigating cross-language speech retrieval for a spontaneous conversational speech collection

Inkpen, Diana, Alzghool, Muath, Jones, Gareth J.F. ORCID: 0000-0003-2923-8365 and Oard, Douglas W. (2006) Investigating cross-language speech retrieval for a spontaneous conversational speech collection. In: HLT-NAACL 2006 - The Human Language Technology Conference - North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Annual Meeting, 8-9 June 2006, New York, USA.

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Abstract

Cross-language retrieval of spontaneous speech combines the challenges of working with noisy automated transcription and language translation. The CLEF 2005 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) task provides a standard test collection to investigate these challenges. We show that we can improve retrieval performance: by careful selection of the term weighting scheme; by decomposing automated transcripts into phonetic substrings to help ameliorate transcription errors; and by combining automatic transcriptions with manually-assigned metadata. We further show that topic translation with online machine translation resources yields effective CL-SR.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Information retrieval
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP)
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics
Official URL:http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
ID Code:358
Deposited On:19 Mar 2008 by DORAS Administrator . Last Modified 25 Oct 2018 12:48

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