The LIMSI RailTel System: Field trial of a telephone service for rail travel information

Speech Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 67-82

  Lamel, L F ^a   Bennacef, S K ^a   Rosset, S ^a   Devillers, L ^a   Foukia, S ^a   Gangolf, J J ^a   Gauvain, J L ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Information retrieval dialog; Natural language understanding; Speech recognition; Speech understanding; Spoken language systems

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; RAILROADS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

LIMSI MASK SPOKEN LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031246697     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(97)00037-X     Document Type: Article

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