Paper title
Speech Information Retrieval for Mandarin Chinese

Abstract
Network technology and the Internet are creating a completely new
information era. With the rapidly growing use of audio and multi-media
information on the Internet, an exponentially increasing number of
spoken documents, such as broadcast radio, television programs, video
tapes, digital libraries and so on, are now being accumulated and made
available. However, most of them are simply stored there and are
difficult to further reuse because of the lack of efficient retrieval
technology. Development of technology for retrieving speech information
is, thus, becoming more and more important. Our team has been
investigating audio indexing and retrieval of spoken documents in
Mandarin Chinese, with a special consideration on the characteristics
and monosyllabic structure of the Chinese language. This paper reports
some interesting results and findings obtained in this research.