WebTalk: Mining websites for interactively answering questions

9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2485-2488

  Feng, Junlan ^a   Ready, Srihari ^b   Saraçlar, Murat ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC DIALOG SYSTEMS; CUSTOMER CARE DIALOG SYSTEMS; WEBTALK;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS; WEBSITES;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33745200275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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