Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra, Roeland Ordelman
ewi.utwente.nl Bridging the semantic gap is one of the big challenges in multimedia information retrieval. It exists between the extraction of low-level features of a video and its conceptual...
Easy Listening: Spoken Document Retrieval in CHoral (2009)
Heeren, Willemijn, Werff Van Der, Laurens, Jong De, Franciska, Ordelman, Roeland, Verschoor, Thijs, Hessen Van, Arjan, ...
Given the enormous backlog at audiovisual archives and the generally global level of item description, collection disclosure and item access are both at risk. At the same time, archival practice is...
Enhanced Multimedia Content Access and Exploitation using Semantic Speech Retrieval (2009)
Ordelman, Roeland, Jong De, Franciska, Larson, Martha
Techniques for automatic annotation of spoken content making use of speech recognition technology have long been characterized as holding unrealized promise to provide access to archives inundated...
Franciska De Jong, Douglas Oard, Roeland Ordelman, Stephan Raaijmakers
held in conjunction with the 30 th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
Franciska De Jong, Roeland Ordelman, Douglas W. Oard, Stephan Raaijmakers
elements, including a keynote speech, paper presentations and panel discussions. This brief report describes the organization of this workshop and summarizes the discussions. 1 Background Nearly a...
Radio Oranje: Searching the Queen's speech(es) (2007)
Heeren, Willemijn, Werff Van Der, Laurens, Ordelman, Roeland, Hessen Van, Arjan, Jong De, Franciska
The `Radio Oranje' demonstrator shows an attractive multimedia user experience in the cultural heritage domain based on a collection of mono-media audio documents. It supports online search and...
XML Information Retrieval from Spoken Word Archives (2007)
Aly, Robin, Hiemstra, Djoerd, Ordelman, Roeland, Werff Van Der, Laurens, Jong De, Franciska
This report presents the University of Twente's first cross-language speech retrieval experiments in Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). It describes the issues our contribution was focusing on,...
Radio Oranje: Enhanced Access to a Historical Spoken Word Collection (2007)
Werff Van Der, Laurens, Heeren, Willemijn, Ordelman, Roeland, Jong De, Franciska
Access to historical audio collections is typically very restricted: content is often only available on physical (analog) media and the metadata is usually limited to keywords, giving access at the...
TwNC: a Multifaceted Dutch News Corpus (2007)
Ordelman, Roeland, Jong De, Franciska, Hessen Van, Arjan, Hondorp, Henri
This contribution describes the Twente News Corpus (TwNC), a multifaceted corpus for Dutch that is being deployed in a number of NLP research projects among which tracks within the Dutch national...
Audio Indexing Technology for the Exploration of Audiovisual Heritage Collections (2006)
Ordelman, Roeland, Jong De, Franciska, Heeren, Willemijn, Hessen Van, Arjan
The role of automated speech and audio analysis in semantic multimedia annotation (2006)
Jong De, Franciska, Ordelman, Roeland, Hessen Van, Arjan
This paper overviews the various ways in which automatic speech and audio analysis can be deployed to enhance the semantic annotation of multimedia content, and as a consequence to improve the...
Transcription of conference room meetings: an investigation (2005)
Hain, Thomas, Dines, John, Garau, Giulia, Karafiat, Martin, Moore, Darren, Wan, Vincent, ...
The automatic processing of speech collected in conference style meetings has attracted considerable interest with several large scale projects devoted to this area. In this paper we explore the use...
Transcription of conference room meetings: an investigation (2005)
Hain, Thomas, Dines, John, Garau, Giulia, Karafiat, Martin, Moore, Darren, Wan, Vincent, ...
The automatic processing of speech collected in conference style meetings has attracted considerable interest with several large scale projects devoted to this area. In this paper we explore the use...
Speech-based information retrieval for Dutch (2003)
Roeland Ordelman Language, Roeland Ordelman
In this paper, the current state-of-aairs in Dutch speechbased retrieval as addressed in a series of multimedia retrieval projects is described and possible future directions of the research in this...
Compound Decomposition in Dutch Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition (2003)
Ordelman, Roeland, Hessen Van, Arjan, Jong De, Franciska
This paper addresses compound splitting for Dutch in the context of broadcast news transcription. Language models were created using original text versions and text versions that were decomposed...
Lexicon Optimization for Dutch Speech Recognition in Spoken Document Retrieval (2001)
Ordelman, Roeland, Hessen Van, Arjan, Jong De, Franciska
In this paper, ongoing work concerning the language modelling and lexicon optimization of a Dutch speech recognition system for Spoken Document Retrieval is described: the collection and...
Speech Recognition Issues for Dutch Spoken Document Retrieval (2001)
Ordelman, Roeland, Hessen Van, Arjan, Jong De, Franciska
In this paper, ongoing work on the development of the speech recognition modules of a multimedia retrieval environment for Dutch is described. The work on the generation of acoustic models and...
Zoeken in historisch videomateriaal : Europese projecten (2) (2000)
De expertise van de Parlevink Groep van de Universiteit Twente op het gebied van Spoken Document Retrieval wordt ingezet voor het ontsluiten van de Nederlandstalige filmarchieven bij het Nederlands...