Semantic confidence measurement for spoken dialog systems

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 534-544

  Sarikaya, Ruhi ^a   Gao, Yuqing ^a   Picheny, Michael ^a   Erdogan, Hakan ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; ENTROPY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PROBABILITY; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ANNOTATION METHODS; LATTICE DENSITY; SEMANTIC CONFIDENCE; SPOKEN DIOLOG SYSTEMS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 22544454488     PISSN: 10636676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.848879     Document Type: Article

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