Thematic Indexing of Spoken Documents by Using Self-Organizing Maps
| Type of publication: | Idiap-RR |
| Citation: | kurimo-RR-00-05 |
| Number: | Idiap-RR-05-2000 |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Institution: | IDIAP |
| Abstract: | A method is presented to provide a useful searchable index for spoken audio documents. The task differs from the traditional (text) document indexing, because large audio databases are decoded by automatic speech recognition and decoding errors occur frequently. The idea in this paper is to take advantage of the large size of the database and select the best index terms for each document with the help of the other documents close to it using a semantic vector space. First, the audio stream is converted into a text stream by a speech recognizer. Then the text of each story is represented by a document vector which is the normalized sum of the word vectors in the story. A large collection of document vectors is used to train a self-organizing map to find the clusters and latent semantic structures in the collection. Because the news stories are quite short and include speech recognition errors, the idea of smoothing the document vectors using the thematic clusters determined by the self-organizing map is introduced to get a better index. The application in this paper is the indexing and retrieval of broadcast news on radio and TV. Test results are given using the evaluation data from the TREC spoken document retrieval task. |
| Userfields: | ipdmembership={speech}, |
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