Introduction to the special issue on spoken language understanding in conversational systems

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 233-238

  Bangalore, Srinivas ^a   Hakkani Tür, Dilek ^a   Tur, Gokhan ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION (ASR); BOOTSTRAPPING; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING (SLU);

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 32144440253     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.09.001     Document Type: Editorial

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