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Topic Segmentation in a Media Watch System

This paper describes our on-going work on the topic segmentation module of a media watch system. The current version explores not only the typical structure of a broadcast news show, but also its contents, which are automatically produced by the speech recognition module, and the topic indexation module. The performance of the automatic topic segmentation module was compared with the manual seg...

An acoustic driven media watch system

The goal of the media watch system described in this paper is to continuously monitor a TV channel, searching inside its news programs for stories that match the profile of a given user. The system may be tuned to automatically detect the start and end of a news program. Once the start is detected, the system automatically records, transcribes, indexes, summarizes and stores the program. The sy...

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Topic segmentation and indexation in a media watch system

The goal of this paper is the description of our current work in terms of topic segmentation and indexation and the comparison of their performance with the story boundaries and topics manually chosen by a professional media watch company. The segmentation module explores the typical structure of a broadcast news show, namely by cues provided by the audio pre-processing module, but an improved ...

Media Richness and Social Norms in the Choice to Attend Lectures or to Watch them Online

The study explored media richness and normative factors that influence students’ choice to attend lectures or watch them online. Lectures in a large psychology course were taped and posted online where they could be viewed by streaming video. All students in the course had the option to attend lectures or watch them online, a choice that could be exercised on a lecture-by-lecture basis. The pro...