Speech act modeling and verification of spontaneous speech with disfluency in a spoken dialogue system

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 330-344

  Wu, Chung Hsien ^a   Yan, Gwo Lang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief model; Disfluency modeling; Speech act modeling; Spoken dialogue

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

BAYESIAN BELIEF MODEL; DISFLUENCY MODELING; SPEECH ACT MODELING; SPOKEN DIALOGUE;

SPEECH ANALYSIS;

EID: 18744415719     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.845820     Document Type: Article

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