A multi-stage approach for Thai spoken language understanding

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 305-320

  Wutiwiwatchai, Chai ^a,b   Furui, Sadaoki ^a,c,d,e  

^a Tokyo Institute of Technology ^*  (Japan)

^b Acoustical Society of   (Japan)

^c IEEE   (United States)

^d ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^e International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Logical N gram modeling; Multi stage spoken language understanding; Thai spoken dialogue system

Indexed keywords

LOGICAL N-GRAM MODELING; MULTI-STAGE SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; THAI SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TRANSDUCERS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 32144464363     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2005.02.005     Document Type: Article

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