The ICSI Meeting Project: Resources and Research

This paper provides a progress report on ICSI s Meeting Project, including both the data collected and annotated as part of the pro-ject, as well as the research lines such materials support. We include a general description of the official ICSI Meeting Corpus , as currently available through the Linguistic Data Consortium, discuss some of the existing and planned annotations which augment the basic transcripts provided there, and describe several research efforts that make use of these materials. The corpus supports wide-ranging efforts, from low-level processing of the audio signal (including automatic speech transcription, speaker tracking, and work on far-field acoustics) to higher-level analyses of meeting structure, content, and interactions (such as topic and sentence segmentation, and automatic detection of dialogue acts and meeting hot spots ).

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