Title
Overview of QAST 2008
Abstract
This paper describes the experience of QAST 2008, the second time a pilot track of CLEF has been held aiming to evaluate the task of Question Answering in Speech Transcripts. Five sites submitted results for at least one of the, five scenarios (lectures in English, meetings in English, broadcast news in French and European Parliament debates in English and Spanish). In order to assess the impact of potential errors of automatic speech recognition, for each task contrastive conditions are with manual and automatically produced transcripts. The QAST 2008 evaluation framework is described, along with descriptions of the five scenarios and their associated data, the system submissions for this pilot track and the official evaluation results.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Question answering,Spontaneous speech transcripts
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
5706
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jordi Turmo130630.52
Pere Comas2827.23
Sophie Rosset339361.66
L. Lamel42135361.63
Nicolas Moreau51478.65
Djamel Mostefa635935.40