Importance-Driven Turn-Bidding for spoken dialogue systems

ACL 2010 - 48th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 177-185

  Selfridge, Ethan O ^a   Heeman, Peter A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXED-INITIATIVE INTERACTIONS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TURN-TAKING;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84859977792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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