Machine learning for spoken dialogue systems

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1761-1764

  Lemon, Oliver ^a   Pietquin, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UMI Georgia Tech CNRS 2958   (France)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSERS (OPTICAL); LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; ROBOT LEARNING; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITIONS; DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATIONS; DIALOGUE STRATEGIES; FORM FILLINGS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; MACHINE LEARNING; MACHINE LEARNINGS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATIONS; RESEARCH AREAS; ROBOT CONTROLS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNINGS; SUB SYSTEMS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149116555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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