This paper presents our experiments in question answering for speech corpora. These experiments focus on improving the answer extraction step of the QA process. We present two app...
In limited data domains, many effective language modeling techniques construct models with parameters to be estimated on an in-domain development set. However, in some domains, no...
The VideoCLEF track, introduced in 2008, aims to develop and evaluate tasks related to analysis of and access to multilingual multimedia content. In its first year, VideoCLEF pilo...
This paper presents and evaluates several original techniques for the latent classification of biographic attributes such as gender, age and native language, in diverse genres (co...
A system to automatically transcribe lectures and presentations has been developed in the context of the FP6 Integrated Project CHIL. In addition to the seminar data recorded by th...
Lori Lamel, Eric Bilinski, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Gille...