Turn-yielding cues in task-oriented dialogue

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 253-261

  Gravano, Agustín ^a   Hirschberg, Julia ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMBIA; INTERACTIVE VOICE RESPONSE SYSTEMS; LARGE CORPORA; TASK-ORIENTED; TURN-TAKING;

EID: 77956414186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1708376.1708412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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