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2009 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Investigating the Global Semantic Impact of Speech Recognition Error on Spoken Content Collections
Authors : Martha Larson, Manos Tsagkias, Jiyin He, Maarten de Rijke
Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Errors in speech recognition transcripts have a negative impact on effectiveness of content-based speech retrieval and present a particular challenge for collections containing conversational spoken content. We propose a Global Semantic Distortion (GSD) metric that measures the collection-wide impact of speech recognition error on spoken content retrieval in a query-independent manner. We deploy our metric to examine the effects of speech recognition substitution errors. First, we investigate frequent substitutions, cases in which the recognizer habitually mis-transcribes one word as another. Although habitual mistakes have a large global impact, the long tail of rare substitutions has a more damaging effect. Second, we investigate semantically similar substitutions, cases in which the word spoken and the word recognized do not diverge radically in meaning. Similar substitutions are shown to have slightly less global impact than semantically dissimilar substitutions.