Automatic indexing of lecture presentations using unsupervised learning of presumed discourse markers

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 409-419

  Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a   Hasegawa, Masahiro ^a   Shitaoka, Kazuya ^a   Kitade, Tasuku ^a   Nanjo, Hiroaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Automatic indexing; Discourse marker; Language model; Spoken language system; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WEB BROWSERS;

DISCOURSE MARKERS (DM); LANGUAGE MODELS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS; SPONTANEOUS SPEECH;

AUTOMATIC INDEXING;

EID: 3042781650     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2004.828701     Document Type: Conference Paper

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