Using hidden markov models for topic segmentation of transcripts

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 185-188

  Sherman, Melissa ^a   Liu, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Hidden markov model; LCSeg; Meeting transcript; Topic segmentation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INFORMATION; HIDDEN STATE; LANGUAGE MODEL; LCSEG; LEXICAL CHAIN; MEETING TRANSCRIPT; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; STOP WORD; TEXT SEGMENTS; TOPIC SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; EDUCATION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 67649537443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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