Spoken language understanding: A survey

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 365-376

  De Mori, Renato ^a  

^a LIA   (France)

Author keywords

Active learning; Conceptual language models; Semantic confidence measures; Spoken conceptual constituent detection; Spoken language understanding; Stochastic semantic grammars

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

ACTIVE LEARNING; LANGUAGE MODEL; SEMANTIC CONFIDENCE; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; STOCHASTIC SEMANTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 44849105561     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/asru.2007.4430139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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