Estimating the number of segments for improving dialogue act labelling

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

  Tamarit, Vicent ^a   Martínez Hinarejos, Carlos D ^a   Benedí, José Miguel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE ACTS; DIALOGUE MANAGER; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84155172569     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S135132491000032X     Document Type: Article

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