Improving spoken dialogue understanding using phonetic mixture models

Proceedings of the 24th International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society, FLAIRS - 24

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 329-334

  Wang, William Yang ^a,b   Artstein, Ron ^a   Leuski, Anton ^a   Traum, David ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; MIXTURE MODEL; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; PHONETIC REPRESENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052413803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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