Meeting summaries: Respiratory disease, women’s health, hypertension, psychiatry

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

What Are Meeting Summaries? An Analysis of Human Extractive Summaries in Meeting Corpus

Significant research efforts have been devoted to speech summarization, including automatic approaches and evaluation metrics. However, a fundamental problem about what summaries are for the speech data and whether humans agree with each other remains unclear. This paper performs an analysis of human annotated extractive summaries using the ICSI meeting corpus with an aim to examine their consi...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Evaluating Automatic Summaries of Meeting Recordings

The research below explores schemes for evaluating automatic summaries of business meetings, using the ICSI Meeting Corpus (Janin et al., 2003). Both automatic and subjective evaluations were carried out, with a central interest being whether or not the two types of evaluations correlate with each other. The evaluation metrics were used to compare and contrast differing approaches to automatic ...