Response timing detection using prosodic and linguistic information for human-friendly spoken dialog systems

Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 220-228

  Kitaoka, Norihide ^a   Takeuchi, Masashi ^a   Nishimura, Ryota ^a   Nakagawa, Seiichi ^a  

^a TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human friendly spoken dialog system; Prosodic information; Response timing; Surface linguistic information

Indexed keywords

HUMAN FRIENDLY SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; PROSODIC INFORMATION; RESPONSE TIMING; SURFACE LINGUISTIC INFORMATION;

DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 18544374120     PISSN: 13460714     EISSN: 13468030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1527/tjsai.20.220     Document Type: Article

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