A finite-state turn-taking model for spoken dialog systems

NAACL HLT 2009 - Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 629-637

  Raux, Antoine ^a   Eskenazi, Maxine ^b  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; COST MATRICES; DECISION-THEORETIC; EVALUATION RESULTS; FINITE STATE; NON-DETERMINISTIC FINITE STATE MACHINE; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; TURN-TAKING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84858387485     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1620754.1620846     Document Type: Conference Paper

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