Ambient Search: A Document Retrieval System for Speech Streams

Benjamin Milde, Jonas Wacker, Stefan Radomski, Max Mühlhäuser, Chris Biemann


Abstract
We present Ambient Search, an open source system for displaying and retrieving relevant documents in real time for speech input. The system works ambiently, that is, it unobstructively listens to speech streams in the background, identifies keywords and keyphrases for query construction and continuously serves relevant documents from its index. Query terms are ranked with Word2Vec and TF-IDF and are continuously updated to allow for ongoing querying of a document collection. The retrieved documents, in our case Wikipedia articles, are visualized in real time in a browser interface. Our evaluation shows that Ambient Search compares favorably to another implicit information retrieval system on speech streams. Furthermore, we extrinsically evaluate multiword keyphrase generation, showing positive impact for manual transcriptions.
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C16-1196
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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2082–2091
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Benjamin Milde, Jonas Wacker, Stefan Radomski, Max Mühlhäuser, and Chris Biemann. 2016. Ambient Search: A Document Retrieval System for Speech Streams. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 2082–2091, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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