ICASSP 2006 - May 15-19, 2006 - Toulouse, France

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Paper:SLP-P15.10
Session:Spoken Document Search, Navigation and Summarization
Time:Thursday, May 18, 14:00 - 16:00
Presentation: Poster
Topic: Speech and Spoken Language Processing: Speech data mining and document retrieval
Title: Topic and Stylistic Adaptation for Speech Summarisation
Authors: Pierre Chatain, Edward W. D. Whittaker, Joanna Mrozinski, Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Abstract: Contemporary approaches to automatic speech summarisation comprise several components, among them a linguistic model (LiM) component, which is unrelated to the language model used during the recognition process. This LiM component assigns a probability to word sequences from the source text according to their likelihood of appearing in the summarised text. In this paper we investigate LiM topic and stylistic adaptation using combinations of LiMs each trained on different adaptation data. Experiments are performed on 9 talks from the TED corpus of Eurospeech conference presentations, as well as 5 news stories from CNN broadcast news data, for all of which human (TRS) and speech recogniser (ASR) transcriptions along with human summaries were used. In all ASR cases, summarisation accuracy (SumACCY) of automatically generated summaries was significantly improved by automatic LiM adaptation, with relative improvements of at least 2.5% in all experiments.



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