The AT&T spoken language understanding system

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 213-221

  Gupta, Narendra ^b,d   Tur, Gokhan ^b,e   Hakkani Tür, Dilek ^a,b,f   Bangalore, Srinivas ^b,g   Riccardi, Giuseppe ^a,b,c,e,h   Gilbert, Mazin ^a,b,g,i  

^a IEEE

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d AT and T VoiceTone Service   (United States)

^e ACL ^*

^f Association for Computational Linguistics

^g AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^h Amer Assoc for the Adv of Science   (United States)

ⁱ RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Named entities; Semantic classification; Semantic representation

Indexed keywords

NAMED ENTITIES; SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION;

DATA ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33745007557     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSA.2005.854085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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