Response-based confidence annotation for spoken dialogue systems

ACL-08: HLT - Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 11-20

  Gruenstein, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE ANNOTATION; CONFIDENCE SCORE; LEXICAL FEATURES; MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; N-BEST HYPOTHESIS; RESPONSE-BASED METHOD; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 78049386844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1622064.1622067     Document Type: Conference Paper

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