User Simulations for context-sensitive speech recognition in Spoken Dialogue Systems

EACL 2009 - 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 505-513

  Lemon, Oliver ^a   Konstas, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONTEXT SENSITIVE; CONTEXTUAL FEATURE; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; N-BEST HYPOTHESIS; RELATIVE REDUCTION; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 70450125031     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1609067.1609123     Document Type: Conference Paper

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