Dialogue strategy to clarify user's queries for document retrieval system with speech interface

Speech Communication

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1137-1150

  Misu, Teruhisa ^a   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dialogue strategy; Document retrieval; Information retrieval; Spoken dialogue system

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SEMANTICS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

DIALOGUE STRATEGY; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; RELEVANCE SCORE (RS); SIGNIFICANCE SCORE (SS); SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746408576     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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