Automatic identification of speaker role and agreement/disagreement in broadcast conversation

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5556-5559

  Wang, Wen ^a   Yaman, Sibel ^b   Precoda, Kristin ^a   Richey, Colleen ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

agreement and disagreement; broadcast conversation; feature analysis; speaker role labeling

Indexed keywords

AGREEMENT AND DISAGREEMENT; AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BROADCAST CONVERSATION; FEATURE ANALYSIS; HUMAN ANNOTATIONS; LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SPEAKER ROLE LABELING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 80051615865     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947618     Document Type: Conference Paper

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