Indexing and retrieval of broadcast news

Speech Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-20

  Renals, Steve ^a   Abberley, Dave ^a   Kirby, David ^b   Robinson, Tony ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c SoftSound Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); QUERY LANGUAGES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

BROADCAST NEWS; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL (SDR);

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034276470     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(00)00020-0     Document Type: Article

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