Detecting question-bearing turns in spoken tutorial dialogues

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 69-72

  Liscombe, Jackson ^a   Venditti, Jennifer J ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Intelligent tutoring systems; Machine learning; Prosody; Question asking behavior

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

C4.5 DECISION TREES; CROSS VALIDATION; DETECTION CAPABILITY; INTELLIGENT TUTORING; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; PROSODY; QUESTION-ASKING; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

STUDENTS;

EID: 44949162815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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