Title :
The CALO Meeting Assistant System
Author :
Tur, Gokhan ; Stolcke, Andreas ; Voss, Lynn ; Peters, Stanley ; Hakkani-Tür, Dilek ; Dowding, John ; Favre, Benoit ; Fernàndez, Raquel ; Frampton, Matthew ; Frandsen, Mike ; Frederickson, Clint ; Graciarena, Martin ; Kintzing, Donald ; Leveque, Kyle ; Mas
Author_Institution :
SRI Int., Menlo Park, CA, USA
Abstract :
The CALO Meeting Assistant (MA) provides for distributed meeting capture, annotation, automatic transcription and semantic analysis of multiparty meetings, and is part of the larger CALO personal assistant system. This paper presents the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include real-time and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, topic identification and segmentation, question-answer pair identification, action item recognition, decision extraction, and summarization.
Keywords :
natural language processing; speech recognition; CALO meeting assistant system; CALO personal assistant system; action item recognition; automatic transcription; decision extraction; dialog act segmentation; distributed meeting capture; multiparty meetings; offline speech transcription; question answer pair identification; speech recognition; topic identification; Multiparty meetings processing; speech recognition; spoken language understanding;
Journal_Title :
Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TASL.2009.2038810
