Stochastic natural language generation for spoken dialog systems

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 387-407

  Oh, Alice H ^a,b   Rudnicky, Alexander I ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIALOG SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036663550     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(02)00012-8     Document Type: Article

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