The Use of Belief Networks for Mixed-Initiative Dialog Modeling

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 757-773

  Meng, Helen M ^a   Wai, Carmen ^a,b   Pieraccini, Roberto ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Technical Services Division   (Hong Kong)

^c SpeechWorks International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief networks; Dialog modeling; Mixed initiative

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MAIL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONBIBLIOGRAPHIC RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEMANTICS;

BELIEF NETWORKS (BN); DIALOG MODELING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0347968245     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2003.814380     Document Type: Article

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