Stochastic language adaptation over time and state in natural spoken dialog systems

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-10

  Riccardi, Giuseppe ^a   Gorin, Allen L ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ADAPTIVE NATURAL SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC LANGUAGE ADAPTATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033908288     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/89.817449     Document Type: Article

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