Characterizing and predicting corrections in spoken dialogue systems

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 417-438

  Litman, Diane ^a   Swerts, Marc ^b   Hirschberg, Julia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

A-TRAIN; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LABELING PROCEDURES; PREDICTIVE POWER; RECOGNITION PROCESS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 33748659884     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2006.32.3.417     Document Type: Article

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