Bayes risk-based dialogue management for document retrieval system with speech interface

Speech Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 61-71

  Misu, Teruhisa ^a   Kawahara, Tatsuya ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayes risk; Dialogue management; Document retrieval; Spoken dialogue system

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; BAYES RISK; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION ACCESS; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASE; N-BEST HYPOTHESIS; ONLINE LEARNING; QUESTION ANSWERING; SPEECH INPUT; SPEECH INTERFACE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; REMELTING; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 70350031592     PISSN: 01676393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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