Can You Predict Responses to Yes/no Questions? Yes, No, and Stuff

5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, EUROSPEECH 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 2267-2270

  Hockey, Beth Ann ^a   Rossen Knill, Deborah ^b   Spejewski, Beverly ^a   Stone, Matthew ^a   Isard, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b School of Science and Health   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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LEXICAL ITEMS; MAP TASK;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0002672977     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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