Automated directory assistance system - from theory to practice

International Speech Communication Association - 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Interspeech 2007

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 533-536

  Yu, Dong ^a   Ju, Yun Cheng ^a   Wang, Ye Yi ^a   Zweig, Geoffrey ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Directory assistance; Speech recognition; Spoken dialog system; TFIDF; Vector space model; Voice search

Indexed keywords

VECTOR SPACES;

ASSISTANCE SYSTEM; AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; DIRECTORY ASSISTANCE; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SEARCH PROBLEM; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TFIDF; VECTOR SPACE MODELS; VOICE SEARCHES;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 56149087687     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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