Phrase-based statistical language generation using graphical models and active learning

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1552-1561

  Mairesse, François ^a   Gašić, Milica ^a   Jurčíček, Filip ^a   Keizer, Simon ^a   Thomson, Blaise ^a   Yu, Kai ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LEARNING; DATA SETS; DECISION PROCESS; DYNAMIC BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GOLD STANDARDS; GRAPHICAL MODEL; HUMAN EVALUATION; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; LANGUAGE GENERATION; LANGUAGE GENERATORS; STATISTICAL MODELS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84859994385     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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