The CALO Meeting Assistant System

Gokhan Tur (1) , Andreas Stolcke (1) , Lynn Voss (1) , John Dowding (1) , Benoit Favre (2) , Raquel Fernández (1) , Matthew Frampton (1) , Michael Frandsen (1) , Clint Frederickson (1) , Martin Graciarena (1) , Dilek Hakkani-Tür (3) , Donald Kintzing (1) , Kyle Leveque (1) , Shane Mason (1) , John Niekrasz (1) , Stanley Peters (1) , Matthew Purver (1) , Korbinian Riedhammer (3) , Elizabeth Shriberg (3) , Jing Tien (1) , Dimitra Vergyri (1) , Fan Yang (1)

1 SRI - SRI International [Menlo Park]
2 LIF - Laboratoire d'informatique Fondamentale de Marseille
3 ICSI - International Computer Science Institute [Berkeley]

The CALO Meeting Assistant (MA) 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 presents the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include real-time and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, topic identification and segmentation, question-answer pair identification, action item recognition, decision extraction, and summarization.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Computation and Language [cs.CL]

Gokhan Tur, Andreas Stolcke, Lynn Voss, John Dowding, Benoit Favre, et al.. The CALO Meeting Assistant System. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, 2010, 18 (6), pp.1601-1611. ⟨10.1109/TASL.2009.2038810⟩. ⟨hal-01194269⟩