Making grammar-based generation easier to deploy in dialogue systems

ACL-08: HLT - Proceedings of the 9th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 198-207

  DeVault, David ^a   Traum, David ^a   Artstein, Ron ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING;

DEPLOYED SYSTEMS; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; GRAMMAR BASED APPROACH; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SYSTEM BUILDERS; TRADE OFF;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84857707371     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1622064.1622102     Document Type: Conference Paper

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