TNO TREC7 Site Report: SDR and Filtering

The TNO spoken document retrieval system is based on the ABBOT Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) system [Renals 1998] developed by Cambridge University, Sheffield University and SoftSound, and uses word spotting, the TNO Vector Space Engine and fuzzy matching based on phoneme trigrams for indexing and retrieval. We participated in full SDR mode and experimented with several approaches