Sequential Linefeed Insertion into Lecture Transcription for Real-time Captioning

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To generate readable captions for Japanese spoken monologue such as lectures in real time, it is necessary to sequentially display the caption into which proper linefeeds are inserted. This paper proposes a technique for sequentially inserting proper linefeeds into the lecture transcript whenever a bunsetsu, which is a linguistic unit shorter than a sentence in Japanese that roughly corresponds to a basic phrase in English, is identified. Assuming that linefeeds are inserted into bunsetsu boundaries, the technique can make the delay time of captioning shortest. The technique statistically judges whether or not a linefeed should be inserted into each bunsetsu boundary by using the information which is available at the time. We conducted experiments on linefeed insertion using a Japanese lecture corpus. From the experimental results, we confirmed that our method, which is bunsetsu-based linefeed insertion method, had almost as much accuracy as the sentence-based linefeed insertion method. In addition, we conducted the comparative evaluations with four baseline methods. As the results, we confirmed that our method could insert linefeeds more properly than the simple methods which are thought to have as same delay time as our method.