Artificial intelligence and other approaches to speech understanding: Reflections on methodology

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 487-493

  Ward, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Research methodology artificial intelligence speech understanding introspection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032351702     PISSN: 0952813X     EISSN: 13623079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095281398146716     Document Type: Article

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