In this paper, the current state-of-aairs in Dutch speechbased retrieval as addressed in a series of multimedia retrieval projects is described and possible future directions of the research in this eld are discussed in brief.

vocabulary speech recognition with morph

Compounding, the process of combining several simplex words into a complex whole, is a pro-ductive process in a wide range of languages. In particular, concatenative compounding, in which the components are “glued ” together, leads to problems, for instance, in computational tools that rely on a predefined lexicon. Here we present the AuCoPro project, which focuses on compounding in the closely related languages Afrikaans and Dutch. The project consists of subprojects focusing on compound splitting (identifying the boundaries of the components) and compound semantics (identifying semantic relations between the components). We describe the developed datasets as well as results showing the effectiveness of the developed datasets. 1