From rule-based to statistical grammars: Continuous improvement of large-scale spoken dialog systems

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4713-4716

  Suendermann, D ^a   Evanini, K ^a   Liscombe, J ^a   Hunter, P ^a   Dayanidhi, K ^a   Pieraccini, R ^a  

^a SpeechCycle Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous improvement; Dialog systems; SSLU; Statistical grammars; Statistical spoken language understanding; Very large data sets

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT; DIALOG SYSTEMS; SSLU; STATISTICAL GRAMMARS; STATISTICAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; VERY LARGE DATA SETS;

ACOUSTICS; LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70349224607     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2009.4960683     Document Type: Conference Paper

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