nxt meets the icsi corpus
DESCRIPTION
NXT meets the ICSI Corpus. Jean Carletta and Jonathan Kilgour University of Edinburgh HCRC Language Technology Group. ICSI Meeting Corpus. 75 natural meetings from research groups close-talking and far-field microphones orthographic transcription "speech quality" tags (e.g., emphasis) - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
NXT meets the ICSI Corpus
Jean Carletta and Jonathan Kilgour
University of Edinburgh
HCRC Language Technology Group
ICSI Meeting Corpus
• 75 natural meetings from research groups– close-talking and far-field microphones
• orthographic transcription
• "speech quality" tags (e.g., emphasis)
• dialogue acts using MRDA
• hot spots
The NITE XML Toolkit
• library support for data handling and search using a data model that can express both timing and complex structure
• multiple file stand-off XML data storage
• some standard GUIs, data utilities
• library support for writing tailored GUIs
extract from Bdb001.A.words.xml
<w nite:id="Bdb001.w.1,342" starttime="356.39" endtime="" c="W">time</w> <w nite:id="Bdb001.w.1,343" starttime="" endtime="" c="HYPH">-</w> <w nite:id="Bdb001.w.1,344" starttime="" endtime="356.59" c="W">line</w>
extract from Bdb001.A.speech-quality.xml<speechquality nite:id="Bdb001.emphasis.16" type="emphasis"> <nite:child href="Bdb001.A.words.xml#id(Bdb001.w.1,342)..id(Bdb001.w.1,344)" /> </speechquality>
Stand-off XML
Tasks
• pre-NXT: up-translation and tokenization
• hand annotation (topic segmentation, dialogue acts, extractive summaries, ...)
• automatic annotation/indexing by query match
Queries in NXT
($a w):(TEXT($a) ~ /th.*/)::($s speechquality):($s ^ $a) && ($s@type="emphasis")
• Find instances of words starting with “th”• For each find instances of speech quality tags of
type "emphasis" that dominate the word• Discard words that are not dominated by at least one
such tagUse queries to understand data, verify quality, index.
NXT as Meeting Browser
• Browser = display + signal indexing +
search
• NXT data displays:– synchronize with signal– highlight search results
Issues
• Already can't load all the ICSI data at once on some machines
• NXT supports display of one meeting at a time but browsing may be over several meetings
• Really complicated queries are often too slow for browser response times
Key: Pre-indexing of query results, tailored data builds
Conclusions
• NXT available, free, open source, useful in a surprising number of ways
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/NITE