An investigation of interruptions and resumptions in multi-tasking dialogues

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-104

  Yang, Fan ^a   Heeman, Peter A ^b   Kun, Andrew L ^c  

^a NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MACHINE LEARNING;

DISCOURSE CONTEXT; DISCOURSE MARKERS; IMPORTANT FEATURES; INTERRUPTIONS AND RESUMPTIONS; LEXICAL FEATURES; REAL-TIME TASKS; RELATIVE ERRORS; SPEECH INTERFACE;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 79952791985     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli_a_00036     Document Type: Article

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