Language independent search in MediaEval's Spoken Web Search task

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1066-1082

  Metze, Florian ^a   Anguera, Xavier ^c   Barnard, Etienne ^b   Davel, Marelie ^b   Gravier, Guillaume ^d  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c TELEFONICA RESEARCH   (Spain)

^d CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Low resource speech technology; Spoken term detection; Spoken web

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

AFRICAN LANGUAGES; EVALUATION; LANGUAGE INDEPENDENTS; LOW-RESOURCE SETTINGS; PHONE CONNECTIONS; SPEECH TECHNOLOGY; SPOKEN TERM DETECTIONS; SPOKEN WEBS;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84902547894     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: 10958363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2013.12.004     Document Type: Article

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