• MALSORI
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• no.50
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• pp.71-83
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• 2004

Recently, broadcast news speech recognition has become one of the most attractive research areas. If we can transcribe automatically the broadcast news and store their contents in the text form instead of the video or audio signal itself, it will be much easier for us to search for the multimedia databases to obtain what we need. However, the desirable speech signal in the broadcast news are usually affected by the interfering signals such as the background noise and/or the music. Also, the speech of the reporter who is speaking over the telephone or with the ill-conditioned microphone is severely distorted by the channel effect. The interfered or distorted speech may be the main reason for the poor performance in the broadcast news speech recognition. In this paper, we investigated some methods to cope with the problems and we could see some performance improvements in the noisy broadcast news speech recognition.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.1E
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• pp.3-11
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• 2002

Broadcast news transcription is one of the hardest tasks in speech recognition because broadcast speech signals have much variability in speech quality, channel and background conditions. We developed a Korean broadcast news speech recognizer. We used a morpheme-based dictionary and a language model to reduce the out-of·vocabulary (OOV) rate. We concatenated the original morpheme pairs of short length or high frequency in order to reduce insertion and deletion errors due to short morphemes. We used a lexicon with multiple pronunciations to reflect inter-morpheme pronunciation variations without severe modification of the search tree. By using the merged morpheme as recognition units, we achieved the OOV rate of 1.7% comparable to European languages with 64k vocabulary. We implemented a hidden Markov model-based recognizer with vocal tract length normalization and online speaker adaptation by maximum likelihood linear regression. Experimental results showed that the recognizer yielded 21.8% morpheme error rate for anchor speech and 31.6% for mostly noisy reporter speech.

• MALSORI
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• no.51
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• pp.99-115
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• 2004

In this parer, we propose LM adaptation for broadcast news recognition. We collect information of recent articles from the internet on real time, make a recent small size LM, and then interpolate recent LM with a existing LM composed of existing large broadcast news corpus. We performed interpolation experiments to get the best type of articles from recent corpus because collected recent corpus is composed of articles which are related with test set, and which are unrelated. When we made an adapted LM using recent LM with similar articles to test set through Tf-Idf method and existing LM, we got the best result that ERR of pseudo-morpheme based recognition performance has 17.2 % improvement and the number of OOV has reduction from 70 to 27.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2E
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• pp.3-8
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• 2001

In this paper, we will examine a Korean large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) system for broadcast news speech. The combined vowel and implosive unit is included in a phone set together with other short phone units in order to obtain a longer unit acoustic model. The effect of this unit is compared with conventional phone units. The dictionary units for language processing are automatically extracted from eojeols appearing in transcriptions. Triphone models are used for acoustic modeling and a trigram model is used for language modeling. Among three major speaker groups in news broadcasts-anchors, journalists and people (those other than anchors or journalists, who are being interviewed), the speech of anchors and journalists, which has a lot of noise, was used for testing and recognition.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.89-93
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• 2006

This paper presents ETRI broadcast news speech recognition system. There are two major issues on the broadcast news speech recognition: 1) real-time processing and 2) out-of-vocabulary handling. For real-time processing, we devised the dual decoder architecture. The input speech signal is segmented based on the long-pause between utterances, and each decoder processes the speech segment alternatively. One decoder can start to recognize the current speech segment without waiting for the other decoder to recognize the previous speech segment completely. Thus, the processing delay is not accumulated. For out-of-vocabulary handling, we updated both the vocabulary and the language model, based on the recent news articles on the internet. By updating the language model as well as the vocabulary, we can improve the performance up to 17.2% ERR.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.33-36
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• 2002

We implemented a robust Korean broadcast news transcription system for out-of-vocabulary (OOV), tested its performance. The occurrence of OOV words in the input speech is inevitable in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR). The known vocabulary will never be complete due to the existence of for instance neologisms, proper names, and compounds in some languages. The fixed vocabulary and language model of LVCSR system directly face with these OOV words. Therefore our Broadcast news recognition system has an offline OOV update module of language model and vocabulary to solve OOV problem and selects morpheme-based recognition unit (so called, pseudo-morpheme) for OOV robustness.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.123-126
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• 2002

In this paper, we describe our LVCSR system for Korean broadcast news transcription. The main focus is to find the most proper morpheme-based lexical model for Korean broadcast news recognition to deal with the inflectional flexibilities in Korean. There are trade-offs between lexicon size and lexical coverage, and between the length of lexical unit and WER. In our system, we analyzed the training corpus to obtain a small 24k-morpheme-based lexicon with 98.8％ coverage. Then, the lexicon is optimized by combining morphemes using statistics of training corpus under monosyllable constraint or maximum length constraint. In experiments, our system reduced the number of monosyllable morphemes from 52％ to 29％ of the lexicon and obtained 13.24％ WER for anchor and 24.97％ for reporter.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.70-73
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 한국어 방송 뉴스 인식 시스템에 관하여 기술한다. 인식 실험 과정에서는 실제로 방송된 음성을 인식하였으나, 인식을 위한 음향 모델은 본 연구소에서 갭라한 고립단어 인식용 가변 어휘 인식모델을 이용하였다. 가변 어휘 인식기는 방송 음성의 연속 문장을 이용하지 않고, 음향학적으로 고르게 분포된 고립 단어를 이용하여 학습되었다. 본 연구에서는 한국어의 특성상 문장이 영어권과 같이 단어 단위가 아닌 어절로 나누어 지는 점을 고려하여, 다양한 형태의 사전 표제어를 대상으로 실험하였다. 또한 탐색과정의 초기단계에 장거리 언어모델을 사용함으로써 인식 오류를 줄일 수 있었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.307-318
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• 2016

비디오 프레임 내의 오버레이 텍스트는 음성과 시각적 내용에 부가적인 정보를 제공한다. 특히, 뉴스 비디오에서 이 텍스트는 비디오 영상 내용을 압축적이고 직접적인 설명을 한다. 그러므로 뉴스 비디오 색인 시스템을 만드는데 있어서 가장 신뢰할 수 있는 실마리이다. 텔레비전 뉴스 프로그램의 색인 시스템을 만들기 위해서는 텍스트를 검출하고 인식하는 것이 중요하다. 이 논문은 뉴스 비디오에서 오버레이 텍스트를 검출하고 인식하는데 도움이 되는 오버레이 텍스트 시작 프레임 식별을 제안한다. 비디오 시퀀스의 모든 프레임이 오버레이 텍스트를 포함하는 것이 아니기 때문에, 모든 프레임에서 오버레이 텍스트의 추출은 불필요하고 시간 낭비다. 그러므로 오버레이 텍스트를 포함하고 있는 프레임에만 초점을 맞춤으로써 오버레이 텍스트 검출의 정확도를 개선할 수 있다. 텍스트 시작 프레임 식별 방법에 대한 비교 실험을 뉴스 비디오에 대해서 실시하고, 적절한 처리 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.438-447
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to understand the recognition of gambling industry through the semantic analysis of news data on lottery, sports betting, horse racing and casino that was reported between 1990 to 2015 in South Korea. This paper revealed the difference between journalists' intention and public's perception about news by analyzing the frequency and connectivity of news with framing and public's interest through semantic network analysis and explored the policy characteristics and innovation task. The result of analysis, news on lottery game mainly has been reported social issue related with win such as 'winning number', 'prize money', 'suspicion of manipulation' and etc. News on sports betting has been reported mandatory information related with business project and illegal site such as 'bidding', 'illegal site', 'sales target' and etc. News about horse racing has been reported the information about the business advertisement such as 'online race track' and 'promotion'. Lastly, casino related news has been reported 'major information' such as illegality', 'gambling place' and 'foreigner'. As a result of times series analysis, news about casino in the 1990s, news about lottery in the 2000s and news about horse racing in 2010s have been increased. Public's interest also has been moved to 'business scandal', 'winning game', 'citizens' campaign' and etc. Gambling related news has been classified by four types, 1. advertising publicity(horse racing), 2. mandatory information(sports betting), 3. social issue(public agenda, lottery), 4. major information(casino). We could get the insight that news can be formed a public agenda, when news is reported as a social issue with high frequency and public's interest like lottery related news.