Segmenting conversations by topic, initiative, and style

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2273, Issue , 2002, Pages 51-66

  Ries, Klaus ^a,b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION ACCESS; INTEGRATION AND MODELING; KEYWORD-BASED; PITCH CONTOURS; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE; SPEECH RECOGNIZER;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 48749111451     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45637-6_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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