Learning the structure of task-driven human-human dialogs

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 201-208

  Bangalore, Srinivas ^a   Di Fabbrizio, Giuseppe ^a   Stent, Amanda ^b  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALOG SERVICES; CUSTOMER AGENT; DATA DRIVEN TECHNIQUE; DIALOG MANAGEMENT; LARGE CORPORA; SUBTASK; TASK-DRIVEN;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84860538350     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3115/1220175.1220201     Document Type: Conference Paper

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