PADIS - An automatic telephone switchboard and directory information system

Speech Communication

Volumn 23, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 95-111

  Kellner, A ^a   Rueber, B ^a   Seide, F ^b   Tran, B H ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attributed grammar; Database constraints; Dialogue history; Directory information; Mixed initiative dialogue; N best; Natural language understanding; Speech recognition; Speech understanding; Stochastic context free grammar; User behaviour

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE SWITCHBOARD;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031249215     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6393(97)00036-8     Document Type: Article

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