Extending boosting for large scale spoken language understanding

Machine Learning

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 55-74

  Tur, Gokhan ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Call classification; Cost sensitive classification; Model adaptation; Semisupervised learning; Spoken dialog systems

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CALL CLASSIFICATIONS; COST SENSITIVE CLASSIFICATIONS; EXTENDING BOOSTING; MODEL ADAPTATIONS; REAL LIFE PROBLEMS; SEMISUPERVISED LEARNING; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35148864626     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: 15730565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10994-007-5023-9     Document Type: Article

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