Design and performance analysis of a factoid question answering system for spontaneous speech transcriptions

Mihai Surdeanu, David Dominguez-Sal, Pere R. Comas

This paper introduces a QA designed from scratch to handle speech transcriptions. The system’s strength is achieved by analyzing the speech transcriptions with a mix of IR-oriented methodologies and a small number of robust NLP components. We evaluate the system on transcriptions of spontaneous speech from several 1-hour-long seminars and presentations and show that the system obtains encouraging performance.

doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2006-354

Cite as: Surdeanu, M., Dominguez-Sal, D., Comas, P.R. (2006) Design and performance analysis of a factoid question answering system for spontaneous speech transcriptions. Proc. Interspeech 2006, paper 1046-Tue2CaP.5, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2006-354

@inproceedings{surdeanu06_interspeech,
  author={Mihai Surdeanu and David Dominguez-Sal and Pere R. Comas},
  title={{Design and performance analysis of a factoid question answering system for spontaneous speech transcriptions}},
  year=2006,
  booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2006},
  pages={paper 1046-Tue2CaP.5},
  doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2006-354}
}