We study the problem of topic segmentation of manually transcribed speech in order to facilitate information extraction from dialogs. Our approach is based on a combination of mul...
This paper explores the relationship between discourse structure and coverbal gesture. Using the idea of gestural cohesion, we show that coherent topic segments are characterized ...
Automatic extraction of content description from commercial audio recordings has a number of important applications, from indexing and retrieval through to novel musicological ana...
The CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track included two tasks: to identify topically coherent segments of English interviews in a known-boundary condition, and to...
Abstract--In a distributed speech recognition (DSR) framework, the speech features are quantized and compressed at the client and recognized at the server. However, recognition acc...