Semi-supervised speech act recognition in emails and forums

EMNLP 2009 - Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: A Meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of ACL, Held in Conjunction with ACL-IJCNLP 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1250-1259

  Jeong, Minwoo ^a   Lin, Chin Yew ^b   Lee, Gary Geunbae ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH ASIA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LINGUISTICS; MACHINE LEARNING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH; DEPENDENCY TREES; DOMAIN ADAPTATION; LABELED DATA; LARGE AMOUNTS; SEMI- SUPERVISED LEARNING; SEMI-SUPERVISED; SEMI-SUPERVISED METHOD;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 80053292519     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1699648.1699671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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