Muath Alzghool


2008

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Combining Multiple Models for Speech Information Retrieval
Muath Alzghool | Diana Inkpen
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

In this article we present a method for combining different information retrieval models in order to increase the retrieval performance in a Speech Information Retrieval task. The formulas for combining the models are tuned on training data. Then the system is evaluated on test data. The task is particularly difficult because the text collection is automatically transcribed spontaneous speech, with many recognition errors. Also, the topics are real information needs, difficult to satisfy. Information Retrieval systems are not able to obtain good results on this data set, except for the case when manual summaries are included.

2006

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Investigating Cross-Language Speech Retrieval for a Spontaneous Conversational Speech Collection
Diana Inkpen | Muath Alzghool | Gareth Jones | Douglas Oard
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers