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Overview of the CLEF-2006 cross-language speech retrieval track

  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Dublin City University
  • Microsoft USA
  • Charles University

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Abstract

The CLEF-2006 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 identify time stamps marking the beginning of topically relevant passages in Czech interviews in an unknown-boundary condition. Five teams participated in the English evaluation, performing both monolingual and cross-language searches of speech recognition transcripts, automatically generated metadata, and manually generated metadata. Results indicate that the 2006 English evaluation topics are more challenging than those used in 2005, but that cross-language searching continued to pose no unusual challenges when compared with monolingual searches of the same collection. Three teams participated in the monolingual Czech evaluation using a new evaluation measure based on differences between system-suggested and ground truth replay start times, with results that were broadly comparable to those observed for English.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEvaluation of Multilingual and Multi-modal Information Retrieval - 7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages744-758
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783540749981
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006 - Alicante, Spain
Duration: Sep 20 2006Sep 22 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4730 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2006
Country/TerritorySpain
CityAlicante
Period09/20/0609/22/06

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