1. Experiments in spoken document retrieval
- Author
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Jones, K. Sparck, Jones, G.J.F., Foote, J.T., and Young, S.J.
- Subjects
Information storage and retrieval -- Research ,Document delivery -- Research ,Voice recognition -- Research ,Business ,Computers and office automation industries - Abstract
This paper describes experiments in the retrieval of spoken documents in multimedia systems. Speech documents pose a particular problem for retrieval since their words as well as contents are unknown. The work reported addresses this problem, for a video mail application, by combining state of the art speech recognition with established document retrieval technologies so as to provide an effective and efficient retrieval tool. Tests with a small spoken message collection show that retrieval precision for the spoken file can reach 90% of that obtained when the same file is used, as a benchmark, in text transcription form.
- Published
- 1996