Boosting selection of speech related features to improve performance of multi-class SVMs in emotion detection

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 8197-8203

  Altun, Halis ^a   Polat, Gökhan ^a  

^a NIGDE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Emotion detection; Feature selection; Machine learning; Speech analysis

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; EXTRACTION; ROBOT LEARNING; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ACCURACY RATES; CRITICAL FACTORS; DATA SETS; EMOTION DETECTION; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHMS; FEATURE SETS; MACHINE LEARNING; MULTI CLASS; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFICATIONS; MULTI-CLASS CLASSIFIERS; OPEN PROBLEMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 60249092335     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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