PHAST: Spoken document retrieval based on sequence alignment

This paper presents a new approach to spoken document information retrieval for spontaneous speech corpora. Classical approach to this problem is the use of an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) combined with standard information retrieval techniques, based on terms or n-grams. However, state-of-the-...

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Autores: Comas Umbert, Pere Ramon, Turmo Borras, Jorge|||0000-0002-7521-1115
Formato: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/86459
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/86459
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Information retrieval
Spoken document retrieval
Approximate matching
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial
Descrição
Resumo:This paper presents a new approach to spoken document information retrieval for spontaneous speech corpora. Classical approach to this problem is the use of an automatic speech recognizer (ASR) combined with standard information retrieval techniques, based on terms or n-grams. However, state-of-the-art large vocabulary continuous ASRs produce transcripts of spontaneous speech with a word error rate of 25% or higher, which is a drawback for retrieval techniques based on terms or n-grams. In order to overcome such a limitation, our method is based on a sequence alignment algorithm drawn from the field of bioinformatics to search