A spoken dialog system for the Dutch public transport information service

International Journal of Speech Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 121-131

  Strik, Helmer ^a   Russel, Albert ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Henk ^a   Cucchiarini, Catia ^a   Boves, Lou ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Continuous speech recognition; Natural language processing; Public transport information; Spoken dialog systems

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

BOOTSTRAPPING METHOD; PUBLIC TRANSPORT INFORMATION; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 0031364891     PISSN: 13812416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02208824     Document Type: Article

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