Learning lexical alignment policies for generating referring expressions in spoken dialogue systems

Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, ENLG 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 74-81

  Janarthanam, Srinivasan ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; GENERATING REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; POLICY LEARNING; REFERRING EXPRESSIONS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70749161718     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1610195.1610206     Document Type: Conference Paper

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