Discourse structure and performance analysis: Beyond the correlation

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 178-187

  Rotaru, Mihai ^a   Litman, Diane J ^b  

^a Textkernel BV   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE METRICES;

EID: 84857749570     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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