Adaptive categorical understanding for spoken dialogue systems

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 321-329

  Potamianos, Alexandres ^a   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^b   Riccardi, Giuseppe ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b University of Southern California   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic confidence scores; Dialogue modeling; Language model adaptation; N gram models; Natural language processing; Speech understanding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAME THEORY; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC CONFIDENCE SCORES; DIALOGUE MODELING; LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION; N-GRAM MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 18744364458     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.845836     Document Type: Article

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