Simulating the behaviour of older versus younger users when interacting with spoken dialogue systems

ACL-08: HLT - 46th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-52

  Georgila, Kallirroi ^a   Wolters, Maria ^a   Moore, Johanna D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SCHEDULING; SPEECH PROCESSING;

APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING; OLDER PEOPLE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; STANDARD METRICS; USER SIMULATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 67651140811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1557690.1557704     Document Type: Conference Paper

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