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First Insight into the Processing of the Language Consulting Center Data

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In this paper, we describe the initial stages of the project “Access to a Linguistically Structured Database of Enquiries from the Language Consulting Center”. This project is attempting to provide an improved access to the large archives of mainly telephone conversations collected continuously by the Institute of the Czech Language. The main goal is to open up the unique Czech data acquired from the queries to the Language Consulting Center and to build the semi-automatic system that will facilitate searching and categorizing of these queries. For this purpose, the Automatic Speech Recognizer (ASR) and the language processing methods are being designed. The vocabulary used in such queries contains many unusual words unlike the common speech (e.g. linguistic terms). In order to train the ASR system, it is necessary to manually transcribe a large amount of speech data, identify the appropriate vocabulary, and obtain relevant text for language modeling purposes. In this paper, the proposed telephone system for recording the new data and the baseline speech recognition on these data is described. The first experiments with the topic detection on these data aimed at discovering what can be found in them and also how to preprocess them is also described.

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This research was supported by the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic, project No. DG16P02B009. Access to computing and storage facilities owned by parties and projects contributing to the National Grid Infrastructure MetaCentrum, provided under the programme “Projects of Large Research, Development, and Innovations Infrastructures” (CESNET LM2015042), is greatly appreciated.

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  1. Faculty of Applied Sciences, NTIS - New Technologies for the Information Society and Department of Cybernetics, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitní 8, 306 14, Plzeň, Czech Republic

    Zbyněk Zajíc, Lucie Zajícová, Josef V. Psutka, Petr Salajka, Jaromír Novotný, Aleš Pražák & Luděk Müller

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Zajíc, Z. et al. (2018). First Insight into the Processing of the Language Consulting Center Data. In: Karpov, A., Jokisch, O., Potapova, R. (eds) Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11096. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99579-3_79

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