Interactive question answering and constraint relaxation in spoken dialogue systems

COLING/ACL 2006 - SIGdial06: 7th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 28-35

  Varges, Sebastian ^a   Weng, Fuliang ^b   Pon Barry, Heather ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSCH RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING;

CONSTRAINT RELAXATION; DIALOGUE STRATEGY; EVALUATION RESULTS; INFORMATION SEEKING; PRESENTING INFORMATIONS; QUESTION ANSWERING; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 80052225136     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1654595.1654601     Document Type: Conference Paper

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