Information seeking spoken dialogue systems - Part I: Semantics and pragmatics

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 532-549

  Ammicht, Egbert ^b   Fosler Lussier, Eric ^a,c   Potamianos, Alexandros ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Multimedia communication; Natural language interfaces; Speech communication

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

CONTEXT TRACKING; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; PRAGMATIC MODULES; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947575820     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2006.888011     Document Type: Article

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