Proceedings of the

DARPA Broadcast News
Transcription and Understanding Workshop

February 8-11, 1998

Lansdowne Conference Resort
Lansdowne, Virginia




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Table of Contents

Abstracts

Author Index

Overview

Session Chair: John Garofolo, NIST

Hub-4 Non-English Systems

Session Chair: Richard Schwartz, BBN

English Systems I

Session Chair: John Garofolo, NIST

English Systems II

Session Chair: Jordan Cohen, IDA

Acoustic Modeling

Session Chair: Barbara Peskin, Dragon Systems

Broadcast News Recognition

Session Chair: Ramesh Gopinath, IBM

Information Retrieval & Spoken Document Retrieval

Session Chair: Amit Singhal, ATT Labs Research

Topic Detection and Tracking

Session Chair: Salim Roukos, IBM

Voice Mail Transcription

World-Wide Speech Research

Session Chair: Lynnette Hirschman, MITRE

Language Modeling

Session Chair: Chair: Richard Stern, CMU

Hub-5 Status and Research

Session Chair: Chair: Barb Wheatly, DOD

Demos

Session Chair: Mark Przybocki, NIST


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