Response planning and generation in the mercury flight reservation system

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 283-312

  Seneff, S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WEBSITES;

FLIGHT RESERVATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0036663554     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(02)00011-6     Document Type: Article

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