Human-computer dialogue simulation using hidden Markov models

Proceedings of ASRU 2005: 2005 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 290-295

  Cuayáhuitl, Heriberto ^a   Renals, Steve ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^a   Shimodaira, Hiroshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMM); HUMAN-COMPUTER DIALOGUE SIMULATION; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 33846206923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2005.1566485     Document Type: Conference Paper

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