Discriminative training of natural language call routers

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 24-35

  Kuo, Hong Kwang Jeff ^a   Lee, Chin Hui ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminative training; Information retrieval; Natural language call routing; Speech understanding; Text categorization; Topic identification

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SPEECH PROCESSING; TEXT PROCESSING;

CALL ROUTING; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037226148     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2002.807352     Document Type: Article

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