Using particle filters to track dialogue state

2007 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2007, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 502-507

  Williams, Jason D ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogue management; Dialogue modelling; Monte Carlo; Particle filter; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

A-PARTICLES; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DIALOGUE MODELLING; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; EXACT INFERENCE; JOINT DISTRIBUTIONS; PARTICLE FILTER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849099359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/asru.2007.4430163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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