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Structural Metadata Annotation of Speech Corpora: Comparing Broadcast News and Broadcast Conversations
... The top part of Table 1 reports numbers relating to occur- rences of FPs. As expected, FPs are significantly more fre- quent in conversational than in broadcast news data. EE FPs are much more frequent than ...
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TUKE-BNews-SK: Slovak Broadcast News Corpus Construction and Evaluation
... The Slovak language is a minor European language with approximately 5 million of native speakers. Despite that there are different types of speech corpora already available. For example, a large Slovak speech database ...
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Named Entity Recognition in Broadcast News Using Similar Written Texts
... NER in speech data was initiated by Kubala (1998). He applied the NER on transcription of broadcast news and reported that the performance of NER systems degraded linearly with the word error rate of the ...
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From Speech to Trees: Applying Treebank Annotation to Arabic Broadcast News
... by Broadcast News data, the ATB’s newly improved pipeline and revised annotation guidelines have proven to be robust enough that very few changes were necessary to account for the new genre of BN ...
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Albayzín-2014 evaluation: audio segmentation and classification in broadcast news domains
... in broadcast news domains by pro- viding a more general and realistic database, compared to those used in the Albayzín-2010 and -2012 Audio Seg- mentation Evaluations [10, ...
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A Prototype System for Selective Dissemination of Broadcast News in European Portuguese
... The goal of this paper is to give a current overview of a pro- totype system for selective dissemination of broadcast news (BN) in European Portuguese. The system is capable of con- tinuously monitoring a ...
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Expanding Arabic Treebank to Speech: Results from Broadcast News
... Treebanking a large corpus of relatively structured speech transcribed from various Arabic Broadcast News (BN) sources has allowed us to begin to address the many challenges of annotating and parsing a ...
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Speaker diarization of broadcast news in Albayzin 2010 evaluation campaign
... of broadcast news, which was part of the Albayzin 2010 evaluation campaign of language and speech ...Catalan broadcast news database recorded from the 3/24 TV ...
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Lightly Supervised and Data-Driven Approaches to Mandarin Broadcast News Transcription
... The baseline broadcast news system was alternatively configured using the conventional MFCC-based and data-driven LDA-based feature extraction approaches. The results are shown in rows 3 to 5 of Table 1, ...
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Development of a Speaker Diarization System for Speaker Tracking in Audio Broadcast News: a Case Study
... in broadcast-news audio data is presented and the impacts of the main components of the system to the overall speaker-tracking performance are ...on broadcast-news audio data with a ...
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Integration of evolutionary computation algorithms and new AUTO-TLBO technique in the speaker clustering stage for speaker diarization of broadcast news
... speech sample pronounced by one person. However, the basic recognition approach has to be extended to in- clude both speaker detection and tracking in multi- speaker audio. In this work, we highlight the speakers’ ...
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A Content Analysis of News Source Characteristics Within Broadcast News Stories Concerning the Financial Crisis Between September 8, 2008 – December 31, 2008
... The study presented here found Representatives and Senators were the first and third most frequently appearing titles with the category of other government officials coming in second. All three titles outpaced the ...
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Structured Named Entities in two distinct press corpora: Contemporary Broadcast News and Old Newspapers
... The Broadcast News (BN) corpus and the Old Press (OP) corpus have different temporal and genre prop- erties. Intuitively, we expect these differences to be reflected in the types of named entities they ...
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Applying a Grammar Based Language Model to a Simplified Broadcast News Transcription Task
... We propose a language model based on a precise, linguistically motivated grammar (a hand-crafted Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar) and a statistical model estimating the probability of a parse tree. The language ...
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Broadcast News Story Segmentation Using Manifold Learning on Latent Topic Distributions
... Story segmentation refers to partitioning a mul- timedia stream into homogenous segments each embodying a main topic or coherent story (Allan, 2002). With the explosive growth of multimedia data, it becomes difficult to ...
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Online Temporal Language Model Adaptation for a Thai Broadcast News Transcription System
... English broadcast news ...of news paper text, and ten daily language models from current and nine previous ...Italian broadcast news transcription system were ...
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Audio segmentation of broadcast news in the Albayzin-2010 evaluation: overview, results, and discussion
... segmentation stage may be useful to improve the robustness of speech technologies like automatic speech recognition and speaker diarization. In this article, we present the evaluation of broadcast news ...
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A System for Speaker Detection and Tracking in Audio Broadcast News
... radio broadcast news in [18], where it was concluded that a speaker identification can even help to improve a speaker clustering performance and not a vice ...
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MATBN: A Mandarin Chinese Broadcast News Corpus
... We have established a webpage for the corpus. On this webpage, there are tools that users can employ to query the corpus. Though the project is finished, we will continue to correct errors reported by users. Also, we ...
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RUNDKAST: an Annotated Norwegian Broadcast News Speech Corpus
... This paper describes the Norwegian broadcast news speech corpus RUNDKAST. The corpus contains recordings of approximately 77 hours of broadcast news shows from the Norwegian broadcasting ...
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