Evaluating Prosody-Based Similarity Models for Information Retrieval
Steven D. Werner, Nigel Ward · 2013
Prosody is important in spoken language, and especially in dialog, but its utility for search in dialog archives has remained an open question. Using prosody-based measures of similarity, which also roughly correlate with dialog-activity similarity and topic similarity, we built support for “retrieve more like this ” searches. Performance on the Similar Segments in Social Speech Task at MediaEval 2013 was well above baseline, showing the value of prosody for search. 1.