Probabilistic methods in spoken-dialogue systems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1769, 2000, Pages 1389-1402

  Young, Steve J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Interfaces; Learning; Reinforcement; Speech; Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346045661     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0593     Document Type: Article

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