Abstract
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 TREC-8 evaluation assessed SDR performance on a corpus of 500 hours of broadcast news material collected over a five month period. The main test condition involved retrieval of stories defined by manual segmentation of the corpus in which non-news material, such as commercials, were excluded. An optional test condition required required retrieval of the same stories from the unsegmented audio stream. The THISL SDR system
participated at both test conditions. The results show that a system such as THISL can produce respectable information retrieval performance on a realistically-sized corpus
of unsegmented audio material.
ABBOT large vocabulary speech recognition system and the THISLIR text retrieval system. The TREC-8 evaluation assessed SDR performance on a corpus of 500 hours of broadcast news material collected over a five month period. The main test condition involved retrieval of stories defined by manual segmentation of the corpus in which non-news material, such as commercials, were excluded. An optional test condition required required retrieval of the same stories from the unsegmented audio stream. The THISL SDR system
participated at both test conditions. The results show that a system such as THISL can produce respectable information retrieval performance on a realistically-sized corpus
of unsegmented audio material.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Eighth Text REtrieval Conference |
| Subtitle of host publication | (TREC-8) |
| Editors | Ellen Voorhees, Donna Harman |
| Pages | 699-606 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2000 |
| Event | Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8) - Gaithersburg, MD, United States Duration: 16 Nov 1999 → 19 Nov 1999 |
Conference
| Conference | Eighth Text REtrieval Conference (TREC-8) |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Gaithersburg, MD |
| Period | 16/11/99 → 19/11/99 |