Efficient integrated response generation from multiple targets using weighted finite state transducers

Computer Speech and Language

Volumn 16, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 533-550

  Bulyko, Ivan ^a   Ostendorf, Mari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SEMANTICS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036663562     PISSN: 08852308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-2308(02)00023-2     Document Type: Article

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