Let's DISCOH: Collecting an annotated open corpus with dialogue acts and reward signals for natural language helpdesks

2006 IEEE ACL Spoken Language Technology Workshop, SLT 2006, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 218-221

  Andreani, G ^a,b   Di Fabbrizio, G ^c   Gilbert, M ^c   Gillick, D ^a   Hakkani Tur D ^a   Lemon, O ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b AT and T Labs Inc Research ^*  (Italy)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learning systems; Natural language interfaces; Speech communication; User interfaces

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE ACTS; HELPDESKS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; SPOKEN LANGUAGES;

LINGUISTICS; USER INTERFACES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DIALOG ACTS; HELP DESK; HUMAN-MACHINE; LEARN+; MIXED-INITIATIVE; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PHONE NUMBER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

EID: 44049104329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2006.326794     Document Type: Conference Paper

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