Construction of linefeed insertion rules for lecture transcript and their evaluation. (19th July 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Murata, Masaki; Ohno, Tomohiro; Matsubara, Shigeki
• Is Part Of: International journal of knowledge and web intelligence. Volume 1:Number 3/4(2010)
• Page Start: 227
• Page End: 242
• Publication Date: 2010-07-19
• Subjects: spoken language -- sentence analysis -- real-time captioning -- clause boundaries -- speech corpus -- linefeed insertion rules -- monologue speech -- lectures -- commentaries -- linefeeds -- Japanese language -- spoken monologues -- readable captions -- morphemes -- dependencies; Information retrieval -- Periodicals; Web site development -- Periodicals; Internet programming -- Periodicals; 004.67805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-8255

Abstract

The development of a captioning system that supports the real-time understanding of monologue speech such as lectures and commentaries is required. In monologues, since a sentence tends to be long, each sentence is often displayed in multilines on the screen. In the case, it is necessary to insert linefeeds into a text so that the text becomes easy to read. This paper proposes a rule-based technique for inserting linefeeds into a Japanese spoken monologue sentence as an elemental technique to generate the readable captions. Our method inserts linefeeds into a sentence by applying the rules based on morphemes, dependencies and clause boundaries. We established the rules by circumstantially investigating the corpus annotated with linefeeds. An experiment using Japanese monologue corpus has shown the effectiveness of our rules.