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OpenKWS16 Evaluation
Developers are expected to build systems according to the published evaluation plan. The significant changes between OpenKWS15 and OpenKWS16 are:
- OpenKWS teams will be supported in multilingual KWS by the release of 24 Babel Build Packs.
- Additional resources from the LDC will be provided to teams.
- Evaluation changes:
- The Full Language Pack (FullLP) will be the primary evaluation condition. Training will include the released training material, the Surprise Language Build pack (80 hrs of training audio, 50% transcribed) but no phonetic lexicon.
- The Very Limited Language Pack training condition will be supported as a contrastive training condition
- The phonetic lexicons will be released only after the evaluation to support analysis.
- Evaluation schedule changes:
- Reduction of KWS system build time and testing time.
- 1 week to build a FullLP system
- 1 week to process the evaluation data with the FullLP system
- 1 week to submit additional contrastive system runs.
- Reduction of KWS system build time and testing time.
Schedule
| February 28, 2016 | OpenKWS16 registration closes |
| July 18, 2016 | Surprise language build pack download begins |
| July 20, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT | NIST sends password for surprise language build pack |
| July 21, 2016 2:00 PM EDT | Scholar Seeded Web Sites emailed to the OpenKWS community |
| July 25, 2016 | Surprise language evaluation pack download begins |
| July 27, 2016, 2:00 pm EDT | NIST sends password for surprise language evaluation pack and keywords |
| Aug 3, 2016, 2:00pm EDT | Sites submit FullLP surprise language system outputs to NIST |
| Aug 5, 2016 | NIST posts FullLP results and phonetic lexicon |
| Aug 10, 2016 | Sites submit contrastive runs. NIST releases EvalPart1 transcripts. |
| Aug 17, 2016 | NIST releases scoring reports and data files. |
| September, 2016 | OpenKWS16 meeting in Washington DC metro area |
Documentation
- The latest evaluation plan is KWS16-evalplan-V04
- For convenience, we provided a document 'diff' with previous versions
- Babel Data Specification, August 26, 2013: This document describes the structure of the Babel data supplied to the participants.
- Language Specific Peculiarities Documents:
- See the OpenKWS16 Data Resources page. (password provided at registration)
- See the OpenKWS16 Data Resources page. (password provided at registration)
Data Resources
The OpenKWS16 Data Resources page contains four types of resources: build packs, evaluation packs, IndusDB releases, and Language Pack Resources. Teams must complete both the registration form and data license in order receive data. Resources will be distributed as follows:
- Build packs:
- Build packs for 24 Babel Languages will be distributed to teams that signup for OpenKWS16.
- The 2016 Surprise Language build pack will be distributed according to the schedule above
- Evaluation packs:
- Evaluation packs for Vietnamese, Tamil, and Swahili will be distributed to teams that signup for OpenKWS16.
- The 2016 Surprise Language evaluation pack will be distributed according to the schedule above.
- LDC resources will be distributed via their download service.
- IndusDB releases will be issued as appropriate for the team.
- Language Pack Resources will be provided as appropriate for the team.
Evaluation tools
NIST provided tools are described in the Evaluation Infrastructure Setup Instructions.