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The CLEAR 2007 Evaluation

March 31, 2008
Author(s)
Rainer Stiefelhagen, Keni Bernardin, R Bowers, Richard T. Rose, Martial Michel, John S. Garofolo
This paper is a summary of the 2007 CLEAR Evaluation on the Classification of Events, Activities, and Relationships which took place in early 2007 and culminated with a two-day workshop held in May 2007. CLEAR is an international effort to evaluate systems

Eval-ware: Multimodal Interaction

March 5, 2007
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo, Richard T. Rose, Rainer Stiefelhagen
This paper is a review of multimodal programs, their evaluations, and online resources. For several years, research in unimodal recognition technologies has been evolving, and has been steadily driven by evaluations. As these technologies mature, new

The Rich Transcription 2006 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation

May 4, 2006
Author(s)
Jonathan G. Fiscus, Jerome G. Ajot, Martial Michel, John S. Garofolo
This paper presents the design and results of the Rich Transcription Spring 2006 (RT-06S) Meeting Recognition Evaluation. This evaluation is the fourth in a series of community-wide evaluations of language technologies in the meeting domain. For 2006

Rich Transcription 2005 Spring Evaluation Website

January 1, 2005
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo
This paper demonstrates that, for large-scale tests, the match and non-match similarity scores have no specific underlying distribution function. The forms of these distribution functions require a nonparametric approach for the analysis of the fingerprint

Rich Transcription Website

December 1, 2004
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo
This paper demonstrates that, for large-scale tests, the match and non-match similarity scores have no specific underlying distribution function. The forms of these distribution functions require a nonparametric approach for the analysis of the fingerprint

Retrieving Noisy Text

September 26, 2004
Author(s)
Ellen M. Voorhees, John S. Garofolo
Two tracks within TREC have examined the problem of retrieving noisy documents---documents whose content is not necessarily a faithful representation of the author's intent. The confusion track tested the ability of system to retrieve documents that were

The Rich Transcription 2004 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation

April 1, 2004
Author(s)
John S. Garofolo, Christophe Laprun, Jonathan G. Fiscus
This paper presents the design and results of the Rich Transcription 2004 Spring Meeting Recognition Evaluation. The evaluation included both Speaker Segmentation (SPKR) and Speech-to-Text Transcription (STT) tasks. Three microphone conditions were

Effects of Word Error Rate in the DARPA Communicator Data During 2000 and 2001

September 16, 2002
Author(s)
Gregory A. Sanders, A N. Le, John S. Garofolo
During 2000 and 2001 two large data collections were performed, with paid users doing travel planning using eight Communicator spoken dialogue systems. We analyze the effects of speech recognition accuracy, as measured by Word Error Rate (WER), on other