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The MGB-2 Challenge: Arabic Multi-Dialect Broadcast Media Recognition

Ahmed Ali; Peter Bell; James Glass; Yacine Messaoui; Hamdy Mubarak; Steve Renals; Yifan Zhang;
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  • Published: 19 Sep 2016
  • Country: United Kingdom
Abstract
This paper describes the Arabic Multi-Genre Broadcast (MGB-2) Challenge for SLT-2016. Unlike last year's English MGB Challenge, which focused on recognition of diverse TV genres, this year, the challenge has an emphasis on handling the diversity in dialect in Arabic speech. Audio data comes from 19 distinct programmes from the Aljazeera Arabic TV channel between March 2005 and December 2015. Programmes are split into three groups: conversations, interviews, and reports. A total of 1,200 hours have been released with lightly supervised transcriptions for the acoustic modelling. For language modelling, we made available over 110M words crawled from Aljazeera Arabi...
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doi: 10.1109/slt.2016.7846277

handle: 20.500.11820/41f930a7-0ccc-4fae-a443-b94a9196e105

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free text keywords: Computer Science - Computation and Language, Natural language processing, computer.software_genre, computer, Training set, Computer science, Language modelling, Transcription (linguistics), Grapheme, Speech transcription, Broadcasting, business.industry, business, Metadata, Arabic, language.human_language, language, Artificial intelligence
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EC| SUMMA
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SUMMA
Scalable Understanding of Multilingual Media
  • Funder: European Commission (EC)
  • Project Code: 688139
  • Funding stream: H2020 | RIA
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