SSCS 2009 Workshop Program
Beijing Hotel, October 23, 2009Opening Address
14:00 -14:10 Searching Multimedia Content with
a Spontaneous Conversational Speech Track
Roeland Ordelman (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision)
Keynote
14:10 -14:40 Multimedia Retrieval through Indexing Speech
Frank Seide (Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China)
Demonstration presentations
14:40 - 15:00 PodCastle: A Spoken Document Retrieval System for Podcasts and its Performance Improvement by Anonymous User Contributions
Jun Ogata and Masataka Goto (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
15:00 - 15:20 A Latent Semantic Retrieval and Clustering System for Personal Photos with Sparse Speech Annotation
Yi-Sheng Fu, Winston Hsu and Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Demonstrations
15:20 - 16:15 Demo Session (between 15:30 and 16:00 get your coffee!)
Research presentations
16:15 - 16:40 Topic Modeling for Spoken Document Retrieval using Word- and Syllable-level Information
Shih-Hsiang Lin and Berlin Chen (National Taiwan Normal University)
16:40 - 17:05 Exploring Fusion in a Spontaneous Speech Retrieval Task
Muath Alzghool and Diana Inkpen (University of Ottawa, Canada)
17:05 - 17:30 Locating Case Discussion Segments in Recorded Medical Team Meetings Saturnino Luz (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
17:30 - 17:55 The Effect of Language Models on Phonetic Decoding for Spoken Term Detection
Roy Wallace, Brendan Baker, Robbie Vogt, Sridha Sridharan (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Closing
17:55 - 18:00 Closing Words
Martha Larson (Delft University of Technology)
