Title
Intonational Phrases For Speech Summarization
Abstract
Extractive speech summarization approaches select relevant segments of spoken documents and concatenate them to generate a summary. The extraction unit chosen, whether a sentence, syntactic constituent, or other segment, has a significant impact on the overall quality and fluency of the summary. Even though sentences tend to be the choice of most the extractive speech summarizers, in this paper, we present the results of an empirical study indicating that intonational phrases arc better units of extraction for summarization. Our study compared four types of input segmentation: sentences, two pause-based segmentation, and intonational phrases (IP). We found that IPs are the best candidates for extractive summarization, improving over the second highest-performing approach, sentence-based summarization, by 8.2% F-measure.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
INTERSPEECH 2008: 9TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION 2008, VOLS 1-5
Speech Summarization, Intonational Phrases, Segmentation
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
1
0.38
References 
Authors
9
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sameer Maskey117911.93
Andrew Rosenberg242224.67
Julia Hirschberg32982448.62