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Monday, June 10, 2013 by Chris Wellekens |
The 2013 Similar Segments in Social Speech Task
With users' growing willingness to share personal activity information, the eventual acceptance of social multimedia, including video and audio recordings of casual interactions, is inevitable. To unlock the potential value, we need to develop methods for searching such recordings, and this task is intended to support research in this area. It is likely to be of interest to researchers in the areas of speech technology, information retrieval, dialog, and topic modeling. The task involves searching in social multimedia, specifically conversations between students in an academic department. The scenario is this: A new member has joined an organization or social group that has a small archive of conversations among its members. He starts to listen, looking for any information that can help him better understand, participate in, enjoy, find friends in, and succeed in this group. As he listens to the archive (perhaps at random, perhaps based on some social tags, perhaps based on an initial keyword search) he finds something of interest, and wants to find more like it, across the entire archive. He marks what he found as a region of interest and requests more like it. The system comes back with a set of ``jump-in'' points, places in the archive to which he could jump and start listening/watching with the expectation of finding something similar.
Task schedule (tentative) April 1: Familiarization pack release May 1: Development data release July 1: Test set release September 5 : Run submission deadline October 18-19: Workshop, in Barcelona This task is organized under the auspices of MediaEval 2013.
Further information is available at http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2013/socialspeech2013/ and http://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/ssss/, or from the organizers: Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; David G. Novick, University of Texas at El Paso, USA; Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan; Elizabeth Shriberg, Microsoft, USA; Louis-Philippe Morency, University of Southern California, USA; Catharine Oertel, KTH, Sweden. |
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