Extraction of pragmatic and semantic salience from spontaneous spoken English

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 437-462

  Zhang, Tong ^a   Hasegawa Johnson, Mark ^a   Levinson, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational linguistics; Information extraction; Spoken dialogue systems; Spoken language understanding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEM; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 32144453060     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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