Proceedings of the 1989-97 DARPA Speech Recognition and Natural Language Workshops

• ISBN13: 9781558605022
• ISBN10: 1558605029
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-01
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

Proceedings of meetings related to the DARPA speech and natural language research programs. The series is currently titled Speech Recognition Workshops; in past years, the conferences for the program have been called either Spoken Language Technology Conferences or the Speech and Natural Language Processing Workshops.

Table of Contents

Author Index	v
Overview of the 1997 DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop	1	(6)
David S. Pallett
INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
Specification of the 1996 Broadcast News Evaluation	7	(4)
Richard Stern
The 1996 Broadcast News Speech and Language-Model Corpus	11	(4)
David Graff
Design and Preparation of the 1996 Hub-4 Broadcast News Benchmark Test Corpora	15	(7)
John S. Garofolo
Jonathan G. Fiscus
William M. Fisher
1996 Preliminary Broadcast News Benchmark Tests	22	(25)
David S. Pallett
Jonathan G. Fiscus
Mark A. Przybocki
HIGH-LEVEL SYSTEM OVERVIEW SESSION, PART 1
Development of the RU Hub-4 System	47	(3)
C. Che
D. Yuk
S. Chennoukh
L. Flanagan
NYU Language Modeling Experiments for the 1996 CSR Evaluation	50	(6)
Satoshi Sekine
Andrew Borthwick
Ralph Grishman
Transcribing Broadcast News: The LIMSI Nov96 Hub4 System	56	(11)
J.L. Gauvain
G. Adda
L. Lamel
M. Adda-Decker
HIGH-LEVEL SYSTEM OVERVIEW SESSION, PART 2
Transcription of Broadcast News Shows with the IBM Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition System	67	(6)
Raimo Bakis
Scott Chen
Ponani Gopalakrishnan
Ramesh Gopinath
Stephane Maes
Lazaros Polymenakos
Martin Franz
The Development of the 1996 HTK Broadcast News Transcription System	73	(6)
P.C. Woodland
M.J.F. Gales
D. Pye
S.J. Young
Transcription of Broadcast Television and Radio News: The 1996 ABBOTT System	79	(6)
G.D. Cook
D.J. Kershaw
J.D.M. Christie
A.J. Robinson
The 1996 Hub-4 Sphinx-3 System	85	(5)
P. Placeway
S. Chen
M. Eskenazi
U. Jain
V. Parikh
B. Raj
M. Ravishankar
R. Rosenfeld
K. Seymore
M. Siegler
R. Stern
E. Thayer
The 1996 BBN Byblos Hub-4 Transcription System	90	(7)
Francis Kubala
Hubert Jin
Spyros Matsoukas
Long Nguyen
Rich Schwartz
John Makhoul
TECHNICAL SESSION II: MISCELLANEOUS TECHNICAL PAPERS
Automatic Segmentation, Classification, and Clustering of Broadcast News Audio	97	(3)
Matthew A. Siegler
Uday Jain
Bhiksha Raj
Richard M. Stern
Efficient 2-Pass N-Best Decoder	100	(4)
Long Nguyen
Richard Schwartz
Some Results on Search Complexity vs Accuracy	104	(4)
Mosur K. Ravishankar
Automatic Speaker Clustering	108	(7)
Hubert Jin
Francis Kubala
Rich Schwartz
TECHNICAL SESSION III: ADAPTATION: ENVIRONMENT/CHANNEL/SPEAKER
Modeling Those F-Conditions---Or Not	115	(4)
Richard Schwartz
Hubert Jin
Francis Kubala
Spyros Matsoukas
Speaker Adaptation and Environmental Compensation for the 1996 Broadcast News Task	119	(4)
Vipul N. Parikh
Bhiksha Raj
Richard M. Stern
Speaker Adaptation by Correlation (ABC)	123	(4)
Scott Shaobing Chen
Peter DeSouza
Acoustic Modeling for the SRI Hub-4 Partitioned Evaluation Continuous Speech Recognition System	127	(6)
Ananth Sankar
Larry Heck
Andreas Stolcke
Practical Implementations of Speaker-Adaptive Training	133	(8)
Spyros Matsoukas
Rich Schwartz
Hubert Jin
Long Nguyen
TECHNICAL SESSION IV: LANGUAGE MODELING
Language and Pronunciation Modeling in the CMU 1996 Hub 4 Evaluation	141	(6)
Kristie Seymore
Stanley Chen
Maxine Eskenazi
Ronald Rosenfeld
Hub-4 Language Modeling Using Domain Interpolation and Data Clustering	147	(8)
Fuliang Weng
Andreas Stolcke
Ananth Sankar
TREC SPEECH TRACK/SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL TASK
The TREC-6 Spoken Document Retrieval Track	155	(5)
Ellen Voorhees
John Garofolo
Speech Recognition and Information Retrieval: Experiments in Retrieving Spoken Documents	160	(5)
Michael Witbrock
Alexander G. Hauptmann
Experimental Results in Audio Indexing	165	(4)
S. Dharanipragada
S. Roukos
Topic Indexing of Broadcast News	169	(12)
Richard Schwartz
OTHER RELEVANT RESEARCH
Toward Automatic Recognition of Japanese Broadcast News	181	(4)
Tatsuo Matsuoka
Yuichi Taguchi
Katsutoshi Ohtsuki
Sadaoki Furui
Katsuhiko Shirai
Other Relevant Research---Session Summary	185
Candace S. Culhane