• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제50호
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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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• 제21권1E호
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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.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제51호
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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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• 제20권2E호
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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.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2006년도 춘계 학술대회 발표논문집
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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.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2002년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집 제21권 1호
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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.

• 대한음성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한음성학회 2002년도 11월 학술대회지
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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.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 제15회 음성통신 및 신호처리 워크샵(KSCSP 98 15권1호)
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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.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.307-318
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• 2016

Overlay texts are artificially superimposed on the broadcasting videos by human producers. These texts provide additional information to the audiovisual content. Especially, the overlay texts in news video contain concise and direct description of the content. Therefore, it is most reliable clue for constructing a news video indexing system. To make this indexing system in the TV news program, it is important to detect and recognize the texts. This paper proposes the identification of the overlay text beginning frame to help the detection and recognition of the overlay text in news videos. Since all frames in the video sequences do not contain the overlay texts, the overlay text extraction from every frame is unnecessary and time-wasting. Therefore, to focus on only the frame containing the overlay text can be enhanced the accuracy of the overlay text detection. The comparative experiments of the text beginning frame identification methods were carried out with respect to Korean television news videos. Then the appropriate processing method is proposed.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.438-447
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• 2017

이 연구는 사행산업의 분야인 복권, 체육진흥투표권, 경마, 카지노에 대해 언론에서는 어떻게 다루어지고 있는지를 1990년부터 2015년까지의 뉴스데이터를 의미연결망 분석을 통해 밝혀보고자 하는 연구이다. 기사의 빈도와 연결성을 프레이밍과 시민관심 정도로 재조명 하여 기사에 대한 언론보도자의 의도와 시민의 인식차이를 밝히고, 이를 통해 정책적 특성과 개혁과제를 탐색하였다. 분석결과 복권의 경우 당첨번호, 당첨금, 조작의혹 등 당첨에 대한 부분이 주제인 '사회문제' 형태였으며, 체육진흥투표권의 경우에는 사업입찰, 불법사이트, 발매대상 등 주로 사업추진과 불법사이트에 대한 '의무정보' 종류였고, 경마의 경우 사업장, 홍보, 기사 등으로 사업홍보나 광고 관련 뉴스이었고, 마지막으로 카지노의 경우에는 불법, 도박장, 외국인 등 '주요정보'에 해당하는 논문이었다. 시대에 따라 1990년대에는 카지노, 2000년대에는 복권, 2010년대에는 경마에 대한 기사보도가 많아졌으며, 이에 대한 시민의 반응도 사업비리, 당첨, 시민운동 등의 차이가 있었다. 마지막으로 기사의 빈도와 연결성이 나타내는 프레이밍 정도와 시민의 관심은 '1. 홍보광고(경마), 2. 의무정보(스포츠베팅), 3. 사회이슈(복권), 4. 주요정보(카지노)' 네 가지로 구분되었으며 이 중 사고, 비리 등 주요기사로 구분되는 사회문제가 주요 공공의제로 형성되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.