Classification of discourse functions of affirmative words in spoken dialogue

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

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1621-1624

  Gravano, Agustin ^a   Benus, Stefan ^b   Hirschberg, Julia ^a   Mitchell, Shira ^c   Vovsha, Ilia ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cue words; Discourse markers; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPEECH; SPEECH PROCESSING;

ALIGNERS; CONTEXTUAL FEATURES; CUE WORDS; DISCOURSE MARKERS; ERROR RATES; MACHINE LEARNINGS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DIALOGUES;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56149127835     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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