The CALO Meeting Assistant System

Author

Tur, Gokhan ; Stolcke, Andreas ; Voss, Lynn ; Peters, Stanley ; Hakkani-Tür, Dilek ; Dowding, John ; Favre, Benoit ; Fernàndez, Raquel ; Frampton, Matthew ; Frandsen, Mike ; Frederickson, Clint ; Graciarena, Martin ; Kintzing, Donald ; Leveque, Kyle ; Mas

Author_Institution

SRI Int., Menlo Park, CA, USA

Volume

18

Issue

6

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1601

Lastpage

1611

Abstract

The CALO Meeting Assistant (MA) provides for distributed meeting capture, annotation, automatic transcription and semantic analysis of multiparty meetings, and is part of the larger CALO personal assistant system. This paper presents the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include real-time and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, topic identification and segmentation, question-answer pair identification, action item recognition, decision extraction, and summarization.

Keywords

natural language processing; speech recognition; CALO meeting assistant system; CALO personal assistant system; action item recognition; automatic transcription; decision extraction; dialog act segmentation; distributed meeting capture; multiparty meetings; offline speech transcription; question answer pair identification; speech recognition; topic identification; Multiparty meetings processing; speech recognition; spoken language understanding;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1558-7916

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TASL.2009.2038810

Filename

5410130