The CALO meeting speech recognition and understanding system
Gökhan Tür, Andreas Stolcke, Luke Voss, John Dowding, Benoît Favre, Raquel Fernández, Matthew Frampton, M. Frandsen, Clint Frederickson, Martin Graciarena, Dilek Zeynep Hakkani-Tür, Donald Kintzing, Kyle Leveque, Shane Mason, John Niekrasz, Matthew Purver, Korbinian Riedhammer, Elizabeth E. Shriberg, James M. Tien, Dimitra Vergyri · 2008
The CALO Meeting Assistant provides for distributed meeting capture, annotation, automatic transcription and semantic analysis of multiparty meetings, and is part of the larger CALO personal assistant system. This paper summarizes the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include real-time and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, question-answer pair identification, action item recognition, decision extraction, and summarization.