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This paper describes the design of the first large-scale IR test collection built for the Czech language. The creation of this collection also happens to be very challenging, as it is based on a continuous text stream from automatic transcription of spontaneous speech and thus lacks clearly defined document boundaries. All aspects of the collection building are presented, together with some general findings of initial experiments.
This work was supported by projects MSMT LC536, GACR 1ET101470416, MSM0021620838 and NSF IIS-0122466.
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Ircing, P., Pecina, P., Oard, D.W., Wang, J., White, R.W., Hoidekr, J. (2007). Information Retrieval Test Collection for Searching Spontaneous Czech Speech. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_57
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