Morgan Nelson author Baron Don author Edwards Jane author Ellis Daniel P. W. author Columbia University. Electrical Engineering Gelbart David author Janin Adam author Pfau Thilo author Shriberg Elizabeth author Stolcke Andreas author Columbia University. Electrical Engineering originator text Articles 2001 manuscript version English In collaboration with colleagues at UW, OGI, IBM, and SRI, we are developing technology to process spoken language from informal meetings. The work includes a substantial data collection and transcription effort, and has required a nontrivial degree of infrastructure development. We are undertaking this because the new task area provides a significant challenge to current HLT capabilities, while offering the promise of a wide range of potential applications. In this paper, we give our vision of the task, the challenges it represents, and the current state of our development, with particular attention to automatic transcription. Electrical engineering Artificial intelligence Technical communication Allan James editor San Francisco Morgan Kaufmann 2001 246 252 10.3115/1072133.1072203 http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:13797 NNC NNC 2012-07-02 17:29:12 -0400 2012-07-03 09:48:59 -0400 7799 eng