| Fabio Crestani. An experimental study of the effects of word recognition errors in spoken queries on the effectiveness of an information retrieval system. Technical Report TR-99-016, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1999. |
....of a sentence. Conversely, longer content words present less difficulty for speech recognizers [12] It is possible that misrecognitions in function words could be ironed out automatically during the deep semantic and syntactic parsing performed by QA systems. A similar principle was verified in [13] for search queries (in formal language) but for questions (in natural language) this has not yet been investigated. Spoken question answering on an open domain is relatively difficult; it can benefit from a restriction on the domain to a specific need, for at least three reasons. First, smaller ....
Fabio Crestani. An experimental study of the effects of word recognition errors in spoken queries on the effectiveness of an information retrieval system. Technical Report TR-99-016, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1999.
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