Automatically training a problematic dialogue predictor for a spoken dialogue system

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2002, Pages 293-319

  Walker, Marilyn A ^a   Langkilde Geary, Irene ^a   Hastie, Helen Wright ^a   Wright, Jerry ^a   Gorin, Allen ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INFORMATION SOURCES; PROBLEMATIC DIALOGUE PREDICTOR;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 30344452293     PISSN: 10769757     EISSN: 10769757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1613/jair.971     Document Type: Article

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