Aggregating distributed STT, MT, and information extraction engines: The GALE interoperability-demo system

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2743-2746

  Pitrelli, John F ^a   Lewis, Burn L ^a   Epstein, Edward A ^a,b   Franz, Martin ^a   Kiecza, Daniel ^b   Quinn, Jerome L ^a   Ramaswamy, Ganesh ^a   Srivastava, Amit ^b   Virga, Paola ^a,b  

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

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Entity detection; Headline generation; Interoperation; MT; NLP; Speech recognition; Speech to text; Story boundary detection; STT; Summarization; Translation; UIMA; Unstructured information

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DETECTION; ENTITY DETECTION; HEADLINE GENERATION; INTEROPERATIONS; MT; NLP; STT; SUMMARIZATION; TRANSLATION; UIMA; UNSTRUCTURED INFORMATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ENGINES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTEROPERABILITY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867219607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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