A lattice-based approach to query-by-example spoken document retrieval

ACM SIGIR 2008 - 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 363-370

  Chia, Tee Kiah ^a   Sim, Khe Chai ^b   Li, Haizhou ^b   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation; Performance; Theory

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSCRIPTION;

EXPERIMENTATION; PERFORMANCE; RECOGNITION ERRORS; RELEVANCE SCORES; RETRIEVAL ACCURACIES; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH TRANSCRIPTIONS; SPOKEN DOCUMENT RETRIEVALS; SPOKEN DOCUMENTS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STOP WORDS; THEORY;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 57349114026     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1390334.1390397     Document Type: Conference Paper

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