The THISL system for indexing and retrieval of broadcast news

Author

Renals, Steve ; Abberley, Dave ; Kirby, David ; Robinson, Tony

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Sheffield Univ., UK

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

82

Abstract

This paper describes the THISL news retrieval system which maintains an archive of BBC radio and television news recordings. The system uses the ABBOT large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system to transcribe news broadcasts, and the thisIIR text retrieval system to index and access the transcripts. Decoding and indexing is performed automatically, and the archive is updated with three hours of new material every day. A Web-based interface to the retrieval system has been devised to facilitate access to the archive

Keywords

indexing; multimedia computing; online front-ends; radio broadcasting; speech recognition; television broadcasting; ABBOT large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system; BBC radio news recording archive; BBC television news recording archive; THISL system; Web-based interface; broadcast news indexing; broadcast news retrieval; decoding; news broadcast transcription; thisIIR text retrieval system; transcript access; transcript indexing; Computer science; Decoding; Hidden Markov models; Indexing; Natural languages; Radio broadcasting; Speech recognition; TV broadcasting; Timing; Vocabulary;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE 3rd Workshop on

Conference_Location

Copenhagen

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5610-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSP.1999.793801

Filename

793801