Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech
| Title | Reranking for Sentence Boundary Detection in Conversational Speech |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Authors | Roark B, Liu Y, Harper M, Stewart R, Lease M, Snover M, Shafran I, Dorr BJ, Hale J, Krasnyanskaya A, Yung L |
| Conference Name | 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings |
| Date Published | 2006/05/14/19 |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN Number | 1-4244-0469-X |
| Keywords | Automatic speech recognition, conversational speech, data mining, Ear, EARS metadata extraction tasks, Feature extraction, hidden Markov models, meta data, Model driven engineering, NIST, NIST RT-04F community evaluation, oracle accuracy, performance evaluation, reranking, sentence-like unit boundary detection, Speech processing, Speech recognition, Telephony |
| Abstract | We present a reranking approach to sentence-like unit (SU) boundary detection, one of the EARS metadata extraction tasks. Techniques for generating relatively small n-best lists with high oracle accuracy are presented. For each candidate, features are derived from a range of information sources, including the output of a number of parsers. Our approach yields significant improvements over the best performing system from the NIST RT-04F community evaluation |
| DOI | 10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660078 |