The thoughtful elephant: Strategies for spoken dialog systems

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-62

  Souvignier, Bernd ^a,b   Kellner, Andreas ^a   Rueber, Bernhard ^a   Schramm, Hauke ^a   Seide, Frank ^a  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b Philips Innovation Center   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Application specific knowledge; Combined decisions; Confidence measures; Dialog history; Natural language understanding; Spoken dialog systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033886436     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.817453     Document Type: Article

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