JOURNAL ARTICLE

Phonetic query expansion for spoken document retrieval

Abstract

We are interested in retrieving information from speech data using phonetic search. We show improvement by expanding the query phonetically using a joint maximum entropy N-gram model. The value of this approach is demonstrated on Broadcast News data from NIST 2006 Spoken Term Detection evaluation.

Keywords:
Computer science NIST Query expansion Information retrieval Document retrieval Speech recognition Natural language processing Principle of maximum entropy Spoken language Artificial intelligence

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Topics

Speech Recognition and Synthesis
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
Music and Audio Processing
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Signal Processing
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Physical Sciences →  Computer Science →  Artificial Intelligence
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