Learning to balance grounding rationales for dialogue systems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 266-271

  Gordon, Joshua ^a   Passonneau, Rebecca J ^b   Epstein, Susan L ^c  

^a Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c City College of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; NOISY SPEECH RECOGNITION; WORD ERROR RATE;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84857738591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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