Human annotation of ASR error regions: Is “gravity” a sharable concept for human annotators?

Daniel Luzzati, Cyril Grouin, Ioana Vasilescu, Martine Adda-Decker, Eric Bilinski, Nathalie Camelin, Juliette Kahn, Carole Lailler, Lori Lamel, Sophie Rosset

Abstract
This paper is concerned with human assessments of the severity of errors in ASR outputs. We did not design any guidelines so that each annotator involved in the study could consider the “seriousness” of an ASR error using their own scientific background. Eight human annotators were involved in an annotation task on three distinct corpora, one of the corpora being annotated twice, hiding this annotation in duplicate to the annotators. None of the computed results (inter-annotator agreement, edit distance, majority annotation) allow any strong correlation between the considered criteria and the level of seriousness to be shown, which underlines the difficulty for a human to determine whether a ASR error is serious or not.
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L14-1601
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Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
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May
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2014
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Reykjavik, Iceland
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3050–3056
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Daniel Luzzati, Cyril Grouin, Ioana Vasilescu, Martine Adda-Decker, Eric Bilinski, Nathalie Camelin, Juliette Kahn, Carole Lailler, Lori Lamel, and Sophie Rosset. 2014. Human annotation of ASR error regions: Is “gravity” a sharable concept for human annotators?. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3050–3056, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Human annotation of ASR error regions: Is “gravity” a sharable concept for human annotators? (Luzzati et al., LREC 2014)
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