Combining active and semi-supervised learning for spoken language understanding

Speech Communication

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-186

  Tur, Gokhan ^a   Hakkani Tür, Dilek ^a   Schapire, Robert E ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Call classification; Semi supervised learning; Spoken language understanding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ACTIVE LEARNING; CALL CLASSIFICATION; SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 13544261390     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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