An unsupervised method for learning generation dictionaries for spoken dialogue systems by mining user reviews

ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Higashinaka, Ryuichiro ^a,d   Walker, Marilyn A ^b   Prasad, Rashmi ^c  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Generation dictionary; Natural language generation; Spoken dialogue systems; User reviews

Indexed keywords

GENERATION DICTIONARY; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; USER REVIEWS;

SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 35148882678     PISSN: 15504875     EISSN: 15504883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1289600.1289601     Document Type: Article

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