Effects of Variable Initiative on Linguistic Behavior in Human-Computer Spoken Natural Language Dialogue

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 141-168

  Smith, Ronnie W ^a   Gordon, Steven A ^a  

^a Department of Mathematics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); ERROR CORRECTION; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

EFFECTIVE INTERACTIONS; LINGUISTIC CONTROL; NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE; NATURAL-LANGUAGE DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; USER BEHAVIORS; UTTERANCE CLASSIFICATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0038376111     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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