Multiparty turn taking in situated dialog: Study, lessons, and directions

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2011 Conference: 12th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 98-109

  Bohus, Dan ^a   Horvitz, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE TASKS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; OBJECTIVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; TURN-TAKING;

EID: 84857736407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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