Automatic induction of language model data for a spoken dialogue system

Proceedings of the 6th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 55-64

  Chung, Grace ^a   Seneff, Stephanie ^b   Wang, Chao ^b  

^a Founder and Director of the MEMS and Nanotechnology Exchange   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDUCTION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; INFORMATION DOMAINS; LANGUAGE MODEL; RECOGNITION PERFORMANCE; SAMPLING METHOD; SEMANTIC FILTERING; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SYNTHETIC DATA; TRAINING DATA; TWO STAGE; USER DATA; USER INTERACTION; USER MODELS; USER TRAINING; WORD ERROR RATE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SAMPLING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84863229306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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