Towards abstractive speech summarization: Exploring unsupervised and supervised approaches for spoken utterance compression

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1469-1480

  Liu, Fei ^a   Liu, Yang ^a  

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

Author keywords

Conditional random fields; ICSI meeting corpus; integer linear programming; speech summarization; spoken utterance compression

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PERFORMANCE; COMPRESSION APPROACH; COMPRESSION PERFORMANCE; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; ICSI MEETING CORPUS; INTEGER LINEAR PROGRAMMING; SPEECH SUMMARIZATION; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84876255209     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2013.2255279     Document Type: Article

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