Test Collections for Spoken Document Retrieval from Lecture Audio Data

The Spoken Document Processing Working Group, which is part of the special interest group of spoken language processing of the Information Processing Society of Japan, is developing a test collection for evaluation of spoken document retrieval systems. A prototype of the test collection consists of a set of textual queries, relevant segment lists, and transcriptions by an automatic speech recognition system, allowing retrieval from the Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese (CSJ). From about 100 initial queries, application of the criteria that a query should have more than five relevant segments that consist of about one minute speech segments yielded 39 queries. Targeting the test collection, an ad hoc retrieval experiment was also conducted to assess the baseline retrieval performance by applying a standard method for spoken document retrieval.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Tomoyosi Akiba, Kiyoaki Aikawa, Yoshiaki Itoh, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hiroaki Nanjo, Hiromitsu Nishizaki, Norihito Yasuda, Yoichi Yamashita, Katunobu Itou
• Keywords: Education, LREC 2008, Spoken Document Processing, Spoken Document Retrieval, Test Collection