Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Signal Processing, 1999 IEEE 3rd Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5610-1
DOI :
10.1109/MMSP.1999.793801
