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The Rules Behind Roles: Identifying Speaker Role in Radio Broadcasts

Regina Barzilay, Michael Collins, Julia Hirschberg, Steve Whittaker
AAAI 2000 pp. 679-684
doi:10.7916/d8pc39q9 /aaai/2000/barzilay2000aaai-rules/

Abstract

Previous work has shown that providing information about story structure is critical for browsing audio broadcasts. We investigate the hypothesis that Speaker Role is an important cue to story structure. We implement an algorithm that classifies story segments into three Speaker Roles based on several content and duration features. The algorithm correctly classifies about 80 % of segments (compared with a baseline frequency of 35.4%) when applied to ASR derived transcriptions of broadcast data.

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Barzilay et al. "The Rules Behind Roles: Identifying Speaker Role in Radio Broadcasts." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000. doi:10.7916/d8pc39q9

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[Barzilay et al. "The Rules Behind Roles: Identifying Speaker Role in Radio Broadcasts." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2000.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2000/barzilay2000aaai-rules/) doi:10.7916/d8pc39q9

BibTeX

@inproceedings{barzilay2000aaai-rules,
  title     = {{The Rules Behind Roles: Identifying Speaker Role in Radio Broadcasts}},
  author    = {Barzilay, Regina and Collins, Michael and Hirschberg, Julia and Whittaker, Steve},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2000},
  pages     = {679-684},
  doi       = {10.7916/d8pc39q9},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2000/barzilay2000aaai-rules/}
}