Dialogue speech recognition by combining hierarchical topic classification and language model switching

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E88-D, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 446-453

  Lane, Ian R ^a,b   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a,b,d   Matsui, Tomoko ^b,c   Nakamura, Satoshi ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^d KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multi domain spoken dialogue; Speech recognition; Support vector machines; Topic detection; Topic dependent language modeling

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COSTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

MULTI-DOMAIN SPOKEN DIALOG; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TOPIC DETECTION; TOPIC-DEPENDENT LANGUAGE MODELING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 24144483469     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.3.446     Document Type: Article

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