Creating a Data Collection for Evaluating Rich Speech Retrieval

Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Martha Larson, Roeland Ordelman


Abstract
We describe the development of a test collection for the investigation of speech retrieval beyond identification of relevant content. This collection focuses on satisfying user information needs for queries associated with specific types of speech acts. The collection is based on an archive of the Internet video from Internet video sharing platform (blip.tv), and was provided by the MediaEval benchmarking initiative. A crowdsourcing approach was used to identify segments in the video data which contain speech acts, to create a description of the video containing the act and to generate search queries designed to refind this speech act. We describe and reflect on our experiences with crowdsourcing this test collection using the Amazon Mechanical Turk platform. We highlight the challenges of constructing this dataset, including the selection of the data source, design of the crowdsouring task and the specification of queries and relevant items.
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L12-1544
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, 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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1736–1743
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/910_Paper.pdf
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Maria Eskevich, Gareth J.F. Jones, Martha Larson, and Roeland Ordelman. 2012. Creating a Data Collection for Evaluating Rich Speech Retrieval. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1736–1743, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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