Constrained minimization and discriminative training for natural language call routing

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 208-215

  Zitouni, Imed ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Call routing; Classification; Constrained minimization; Discriminative training; Vector based classifier

Indexed keywords

CALL ROUTING; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACIES; CLASSIFICATION ERROR RATES; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; COMBINATION STRATEGIES; CONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION; DISCRIMINATIVE TRAINING; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; GENERALIZED PROBABILISTIC DESCENTS; INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; NATURAL LANGUAGE CALL ROUTING; NEGATIVE EXAMPLES;

CLASSIFIERS; ERRORS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; OPTIMIZATION;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 64849099270     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.911056     Document Type: Article

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