Managing out-of-grammar utterances by topic estimation with domain extensibility in multi-domain spoken dialogue systems

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 863-870

  Komatani, Kazunori ^a   Ikeda, Satoshi ^a   Ogata, Tetsuya ^a   Okuno, Hiroshi G ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Domain extensibility; Multi domain spoken dialogue system; Out of grammar utterance; Topic estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION THEORY; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DOMAIN EXTENSIBILITY; ESTIMATION ACCURACIES; LATENT SEMANTIC MAPPING; MULTI DOMAINS; MULTI-DOMAIN SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; OUT-OF-GRAMMAR UTTERANCE; SINGLE DOMAINS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; TOPIC ESTIMATION; TRAINING DATA;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 52949125236     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.05.010     Document Type: Article

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