Incremental learning for spoken affect classification and its application in call-centres

International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 242-254

  Morrison, Donn ^a   Wang, Ruili ^a   Xu, W L ^a   De Silva, Liyanage C ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

affect recognition; ANNs; artificial neural networks; emotion recognition; incremental learning; real time; support vector machines; SVMs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955422208     PISSN: 17408865     EISSN: 17408873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijista.2007.012486     Document Type: Article

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