Statistical framework for a Spanish spoken dialogue corpus

Speech Communication

Volumn 50, Issue 11-12, 2008, Pages 992-1008

  Martínez Hinarejos, Carlos D ^a   Benedí, José Miguel ^a   Granell, Ramón ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue annotation; Dialogue models; Spoken dialogue systems; Statistical models

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; DECODING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SPEECH PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

DIALOGUE ANNOTATION; DIALOGUE MODELS; DIALOGUE STRATEGIES; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; IMPLEMENTING; LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; SPANISH; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DIALOGUES; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORKS; STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNINGS; STATISTICAL MODELS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 54149084139     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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