Robust techniques for organizing and retrieving spoken documents

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2003, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 103-114

  Allan, James ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Spoken document retrieval; Topic detection and tracking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; ERROR DETECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REDUNDANCY; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); USER INTERFACES;

TOPIC DETECTION AND TRACKING (TDT);

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037300570     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/S1110865703211070     Document Type: Article

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