Speaker adaptation of language models for automatic dialog act segmentation of meetings

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2007, Pages 2892-2895

  Kolář, Jáchym ^a   Liu, Yang ^b   Shriberg, Elizabeth ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialog act segmentation; Language model adaptation; Meetings; Sentence segmentation; Speaker adaptation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; LINGUISTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DIALOG ACT SEGMENTATION; LANGUAGE MODEL ADAPTATION; MEETINGS; SENTENCE SEGMENTATION; SPEAKER ADAPTATION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149093006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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