| LREC 2000 2nd International Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation | ||||||
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| Title | Transcribing with Annotation Graphs |
| Authors | Geoffrois Edouard (DGA/CTA/GIP, 16 bis av. Prieur de la Côte d’Or, 94114 Arcueil cedex, France, Edouard.Geoffrois@etca.fr) Barras Claude (Spoken Language Processing Group, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, 3615 Market Street, Suite 200, 91403 Orsay cedex, France, Claude.Barras@limsi.fr) Bird Steven (LDC, 3615 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-2608, USA, sb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu) Wu Zhibiao (LDC, 3615 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA, 19104-2608, USA, wzb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu) |
| Keywords | Annotation Graphs, Speech Transcription Tool |
| Session | Session SP4 - Tools for Evaluation and Processing of Spoken Language Resources |
| Full Paper | 192.ps, 192.pdf |
| Abstract | Transcriber is a tool for manual annotation of large speech files. It was originally designed for the broadcast news transcription task. The annotation file format was derived from previous formats used for this task, and many related features were hard-coded. In this paper we present a generalization of the tool based on the annotation graph formalism, and on a more modular design. This will allow us to address new tasks, while retaining Transcriber’s simple, crisp user-interface which is critical for user acceptance. |