@inproceedings{masuyama-etal-2024-video,
    title = "Video Retrieval System Using Automatic Speech Recognition for the {J}apanese Diet",
    author = "Masuyama, Mikitaka  and
      Kawahara, Tatsuya  and
      Matsuda, Kenjiro",
    editor = "Fiser, Darja  and
      Eskevich, Maria  and
      Bordon, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the IV Workshop on Creating, Analysing, and Increasing Accessibility of Parliamentary Corpora (ParlaCLARIN) @ LREC-COLING 2024",
    month = may,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Torino, Italia",
    publisher = "ELRA and ICCL",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.parlaclarin-1.21",
    pages = "145--148",
    abstract = "The Japanese House of Representatives, one of the two houses of the Diet, has adopted an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system, which directly transcribes parliamentary speech with an accuracy of 95 percent. The ASR system also provides a timestamp for every word, which enables retrieval of the video segments of the Parliamentary meetings. The video retrieval system we have developed allows one to pinpoint and play the parliamentary video clips corresponding to the meeting minutes by keyword search. In this paper, we provide its overview and suggest various ways we can utilize the system. The system is currently extended to cover meetings of local governments, which will allow us to investigate dialectal linguistic variations.",
}

The Japanese House of Representatives, one of the two houses of the Diet, has adopted an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) system, which directly transcribes parliamentary speech with an accuracy of 95 percent. The ASR system also provides a timestamp for every word, which enables retrieval of the video segments of the Parliamentary meetings. The video retrieval system we have developed allows one to pinpoint and play the parliamentary video clips corresponding to the meeting minutes by keyword search. In this paper, we provide its overview and suggest various ways we can utilize the system. The system is currently extended to cover meetings of local governments, which will allow us to investigate dialectal linguistic variations.
Masuyama, Mikitaka Kawahara, Tatsuya Matsuda, Kenjiro
Video Retrieval System Using Automatic Speech Recognition for the Japanese Diet