THISL: Thematic Indexing of Spoken Language

Funded by EC RTD in IT, Long Term Research Project 23495
1 February 1997 - 31 January 2000
Partners:

BBC (UK): David Kirby

FPMs (B): Jean-Marc Boite

SoftSound (UK): Tony Robinson

Thomson-CSF (F): Celestin Sedogbo and Nathalie Colineau

IDIAP (CH): Herve Bourlard and Mikko Kurimo

ICSI (USA, Subcontractor): Dan Ellis

Keywords: speech recognition, information retrieval, natural language processing.

Annual Report 1999
Overview of the THISL project
Publications arising from THISL
ESCA workshop on "Accessing information in Spoken Audio".
THISLdemo - we have a demo that searches and retrieves stories from an archive of 1000 hours of BBC TV and radio news. The demo is not yet on the web but we have some nice pictures of the version including a spoken query interface.

Dave Abberley, Tony Robinson and Matthew Marks with THISLDemo at RIAO 2000.

Last modified: Thu May 11 17:02:42 BST 2000