Understanding unsegmented user utterances in real-time spoken dialogue systems

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1999-June, Issue , 1999, Pages 200-207

  Nakano, Mikio ^a   Miyazaki, Noboru ^a   Hirasawa, Jun Ichi ^a   Dohsaka, Kohji ^a   Kawabata, Takeshi ^a  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SYNTACTICS;

BEAM SEARCH; DISCOURSE PROCESSING; PARTIAL RESULTS; PROCESSING METHOD; REAL- TIME; SEMANTIC AMBIGUITIES; SEMANTIC BOUNDARY; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SYNTACTIC AMBIGUITIES; TASK EXECUTIONS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 0006443487     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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