ASR output for search collection available

[Paul Over <over@nist.gov>]

Hi,

For your information, the ASR output from the MS Research Asia group
for the trecvid search test collection is available on the website:

<http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/t2002v/asr/>

This output replaces the earlier file which was a small sample.
See below for details

Many thanks to Pei Yin and the Microsoft Research Asia team for
this donation.

- Paul

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: TREC Speech transcripts ... advice and help sought
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 00:30:07 +0800
From: "Pei Yin" <pyin@msrchina.research.microsoft.com>
To: "Prof. Alan Smeaton" <asmeaton@mailhost.computing.dcu.ie>,"Paul Over" <over@nist.gov>, "Hong-Jiang Zhang" <hjzhang@microsoft.com>,"Xian-Sheng Hua (Intl Staffing)" <i-xshua@microsoft.com>,"Huajian
Wang" <hjwang@msrchina.research.microsoft.com>,"Jiamin Ye" <jiaminye@mailhost.computing.dcu.ie>

Hello, MSRA donation of the ASR transcripts for the Search Test
Collection is now available. Here we explain two points:
1) We think there is no need to generate ASR results for the whole
collection, since the donation is to facilitate other teams to perform
the search task. So only the results for the search test collection is
submitted.
2) According to Jiamin Ye's suggestions, the "markup" symbols in the ASR
transcripts should be "escaped" in the XML file as usual. So we
converted the following symbols this time:
"&" to "&amp;"
"<" to "&lt;"
">" to "&gt;"
"'" to "&apos;"
""" to "&quot;"
Please inform us if further modification is needed.

Regards,
Pei Yin
Undergraduate, CS Dept. Tsinghua Univ.
Intern, Microsoft Research Asia
http://www.geocities.com/pascalyin