Retrieval effectiveness of written and spoken queries: an experimental evaluation

Heather Du; Fabio Crestani

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25957-2_30

Retrieval effectiveness of written and spoken queries: an experimental evaluation

Heather Du, Fabio Crestani

Computer And Information Sciences

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Abstract

With the fast growing speech technologies, the world is emerging to a new speech era. Speech recognition has now become a practical technology for real world applications. While some work has been done to facilitate retrieving information in speech format using textual queries, the characteristics of speech as a way to express an information need has not been extensively studied. If one compares written versus spoken queries, it is intuitive to think that users would issue longer spoken queries than written ones, due to the ease of speech. Is this in fact the case in reality? Also, if this is the case, would longer spoken queries be more effective in helping retrieving relevant document than written ones? This paper presents some new findings derived from an experimental study to test these intuitions.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Flexible Query Answering Systems
Subtitle of host publication	6th International Conference, FQAS 2004, Lyon, France, June 24-26, 2004 : Proceedings
Editors	Henning Christiansen
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Springer
Pages	376-389
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	9783540259572
ISBN (Print)	9783540221609
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25957-2_30
Publication status	Published - 17 Aug 2004
Event	6th International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems - Lyon, France Duration: 24 Jun 2004 → 26 Jun 2004

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Conference	6th International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems
City	Lyon, France
Period	24/06/04 → 26/06/04

Keywords

information retreival
speech recognition
automatic speech recognition
content word
information retrieval systems
word error rate

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Du, H & Crestani, F 2004, Retrieval effectiveness of written and spoken queries: an experimental evaluation. in H Christiansen (ed.), Flexible Query Answering Systems: 6th International Conference, FQAS 2004, Lyon, France, June 24-26, 2004 : Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, pp. 376-389, 6th International Conference On Flexible Query Answering Systems, Lyon, France, 24/06/04. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25957-2_30

Retrieval effectiveness of written and spoken queries: an experimental evaluation. / Du, Heather; Crestani, Fabio.
Flexible Query Answering Systems: 6th International Conference, FQAS 2004, Lyon, France, June 24-26, 2004 : Proceedings. ed. / Henning Christiansen. Berlin: Springer, 2004. p. 376-389.

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