Training a confidence measure for a reading tutor that listens

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 3161-3164

  Tam, Yik Cheung ^a   Mostow, Jack ^a   Beck, Joseph ^a   Banerjee, Satanjeev ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; RATE CONSTANTS;

CONFIDENCE MEASURE; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; DELETION ERRORS; DETECTION RATES; FALSE ALARM RATE; READING TUTORS; RELATIVE REDUCTION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 51849105470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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