Combining LVCSR and vocabulary-independent ranked utterance retrieval for robust speech search

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 91-98

  Olsson, J Scott ^a   Oard, Douglas W ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ranked utterance retrieval; Speech retrieval; Vocabulary independent spoken term detection

Indexed keywords

LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; QUERY TERMS; RANKED RETRIEVAL; RELEVANCE JUDGMENT; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; ROBUST SPEECH; SPEECH AUDIO; SPEECH RETRIEVAL;

CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; SPEECH PROCESSING; TUNING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 72449159219     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1571959     Document Type: Conference Paper

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