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The ICSI Meeting Project: Resources and Research

@inproceedings{Janin2004TheIM,
  title={The ICSI Meeting Project: Resources and Research},
  author={Adam L. Janin and Jeremy Ang and Sonali Bhagat and Rajdip Dhillon and Jane Edwards and J. Marcias-Guarasa and Nelson Morgan and Barbara Peskin and Elizabeth Shriberg and Andreas Stolcke and Chuck Wooters and Britta Wrede},
  year={2004}
}
This paper provides a progress report on ICSI s Meeting Project, including both the data collected and annotated as part of the pro-ject, as well as the research lines such materials support. We include a general description of the official ICSI Meeting Corpus , as currently available through the Linguistic Data Consortium, discuss some of the existing and planned annotations which augment the basic transcripts provided there, and describe several research efforts that make use of these… 
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