Learning to generate naturalistic utterances using reviews in spoken dialogue systems

COLING/ACL 2006 - 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 265-272

  Higashinaka, Ryuichiro ^a   Prasad, Rashmi ^b   Walker, Marilyn A ^c  

^a NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MAPPING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; RESTAURANT REVIEWS; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; USER EVALUATIONS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84860508453     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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