RESOURCE MANAGEMENT TEST: 7

ORIGINAL TEST DATE: September '92

RECOGNITION SYSTEMS: speaker-dependent continuous speech transcription
                     speaker-independent continuous speech transcription   

SPEAKER-DEPENDENT TRAINING MATERIAL:
     . ((all 12 speakers from Speaker-Dependent Training Set) X
        (all 600 "sr" and "st" sentence utterances/speaker))
       = 7200 training utterances from CD2-1.1 and CD2-2.1: /rm1/dep_trn
     . Files are listed in CD2-4.2: /rm1/doc/train/6a_deptr.ndx and
       CD2-4.2: /rm1/doc/train/6b_deptr.ndx

SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT TRAINING MATERIAL:
     . "old standard" 72-speaker training set:
       ((72 speakers from Speaker-Independent Training set) X
        (40 sentence utterances/speaker))
       = 2880 training utterances from CD2-3.1: /rm1/ind_trn
     . files are listed in CD2-4.2: /rm1/doc/train/72_indtr.ndx

     . preferable "augmented" 109-speaker training set:
       (((the "old standard" 72-speaker training set) + 
        ((37 speakers from Speaker-Independent Development-Test set) X
         (30 sentence utterances/speaker)))
       = 3990 training utterances from CD2-3.1: /rm1/ind_trn and
         /rm1/ind/dev_aug
     . files are listed in CD2-4.2: /rm1/doc/train/37_indtr.ndx

TEST PARAMETERS:
     . grammar:
          (1) no grammar - full branching
          (2) "standard" non-probabilistic Word-Pair grammar developed at BBN
     . speaker-independent training:
          (1) "old standard" 72-speaker training set and/or 
          (2) preferable "augmented" 109-speaker training set
     
SPEAKER-DEPENDENT TEST MATERIAL:
     . ((all 12 speakers from Speaker-Dependent Evaluation-Test set) X
        (25 sentence utterances/speaker))
       = 300 test utterances from CD2-4.2: /rm1/dep/eval
     . files are listed in CD2-4.2: /rm1/doc/tests/6_feb91/6_deptst.ndx

SPEAKER-INDEPENDENT TEST MATERIAL:
     . ((10 speakers from Speaker-Independent Evaluation-Test set) X
        (30 sentence utterances/speaker))
       = 300 test utterances from CD2-4.2: /rm1/ind/eval
     . files are listed in CD2-4.2: /rm1/doc/tests/6_feb91/6_indtst.ndx

SCORING SOFTWARE SETTINGS:
     The following commands should be used when scoring this test:

     . in the no-grammar case:
          ngscore hypothesis-file [system-code] [system-description]

     . in the Word-Pair grammar case:
          wgscore hypothesis-file [system-code] [system-description]