Information Retrieval Test Collection for Searching Spontaneous Czech Speech

Abstract. This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challenging, as it is based on a continuous text stream from automatic transcription of spontaneous speech and thus lacks clearly defined document boundaries. All aspects of the collection building are presented, together with some general findings of initial experiments.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: TSD
• Authors: Pavel Ircing, Pavel Pecina, Douglas W. Oard, Jianqiang Wang, Ryen W. White, Jan Hoidekr
• Keywords: Continuous Text Stream, Signal Processing, Test Collection, TSD 2007, first Large-scale Ir