Michael G. Christel
Julieanna Richardson
ABSTRACT
This paper discusses the application of speech alignment, image processing, and language understanding technologies to build efficient interfaces into large digital oral history archives, as exemplified by a thousand hour HistoryMakers corpus. Browsing, querying, and navigation features are discussed.
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Facilitating access to large digital oral history archives through informedia technologies
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