Podcast Metadata and Content: Episode Relevance andAttractiveness in Ad Hoc Search

no code implementations • 25 Aug 2021 • Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones, Gareth F. Jones, Maria Eskevich, Sravana Reddy, Ann Clifton, Yongze Yu, Jussi Karlgren, Ian Soboroff

We describe a set of diverse podcast information needs and different approaches to assessing retrieved content for relevance.

Modeling Language Usage and Listener Engagement in Podcasts

no code implementations • ACL 2021 • Sravana Reddy, Marina Lazarova, Yongze Yu, Rosie Jones

While there is an abundance of popular writing targeted to podcast creators on how to speak in ways that engage their listeners, there has been little data-driven analysis of podcasts that relates linguistic style with listener engagement.

TREC 2020 Podcasts Track Overview

no code implementations • 29 Mar 2021 • Rosie Jones, Ben Carterette, Ann Clifton, Maria Eskevich, Gareth J. F. Jones, Jussi Karlgren, Aasish Pappu, Sravana Reddy, Yongze Yu

The Podcast Track is new at the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC) in 2020.

Information Retrieval Retrieval +1

Detecting Extraneous Content in Podcasts

no code implementations • EACL 2021 • Sravana Reddy, Yongze Yu, Aasish Pappu, Aswin Sivaraman, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Rosie Jones

Podcast episodes often contain material extraneous to the main content, such as advertisements, interleaved within the audio and the written descriptions.

Music Information Retrieval

100,000 Podcasts: A Spoken English Document Corpus

no code implementations • COLING 2020 • Ann Clifton, Sravana Reddy, Yongze Yu, Aasish Pappu, Rezvaneh Rezapour, Hamed Bonab, Maria Eskevich, Gareth Jones, Jussi Karlgren, Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones

Paired with the audio files, they are also a resource for speech processing and the study of paralinguistic, sociolinguistic, and acoustic aspects of the domain.

Automatic Speech Recognition Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) +3

The Spotify Podcast Dataset

no code implementations • 8 Apr 2020 • Ann Clifton, Aasish Pappu, Sravana Reddy, Yongze Yu, Jussi Karlgren, Ben Carterette, Rosie Jones

Podcasts are a relatively new form of audio media.