The COST278 Pan-European Broadcast News Database
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004)
Abstract
This paper describes a pan-European multilingual audio and video database of broadcast news shows. The database was constructed by seven institutions that are collaborating in the European COST278 action on Spoken Language Interaction in Telecommunications. At present, the database comprises broadcast news shows in seven languages, namely Dutch, Portuguese, Galician, Czech, Slovenian, Slovakian and Greek, but the policy is to attract new partners that bring in new data which are constructed and transcribed according to the rules and procedures outlined in this paper. The data comes with evaluation software that should facilitate a comparison of experiments.