The CALO Meeting Assistant System

Abstract-The CALO Meeting Assistant (MA) provides for distributed meeting capture, annotation, automatic transcription and semantic analysis of multiparty meetings, and is part of the larger CALO personal assistant system. This paper presents the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include real-time and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, topic identification and segmentation, question-answer pair identification, action item recognition, decision extraction, and summarization.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TASLP
• Authors: Gökhan Tür, Andreas Stolcke, L. Voss, Stanley Peters, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, John Dowding, Benoît Favre, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, Michael W. Frandsen, C. Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, D. Kintzing, K. Leveque, S. Mason, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth Shriberg, Jing Tien, Dimitra Vergyri, Fan Yang
• Keywords: CALO Meeting Assistant, CALO Personal Assistant, Dialog Act Segmentation, Software Engineering, TASLP 2010