Varying input segmentation for story boundary detection in English, Arabic and Mandarin broadcast news

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1745-1748

  Rosenberg, Andrew ^a   Sharifi, Mehrbod ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Segmentation; Story boundary detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FEATURES; BOUNDARY DETECTIONS; BROADCAST NEWS; CONFIDENCE SCORES; QUESTION ANSWERING; SEGMENTATION; SENTENCE BOUNDARIES; STORY BOUNDARY DETECTION; STORY SEGMENTATIONS;

DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149116556     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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