Detecting the status of a predictive incremental speech understanding model for real-time decision-making in a spoken dialogue system

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1021-1024

  DeVault, David ^a   Sagae, Kenji ^a   Traum, David ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Incremental speech processing; Natural language understanding; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; INCREMENTAL RESPONSE; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; REAL-TIME RESPONSE; SPEECH UNDERSTANDING; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; VIRTUAL HUMANS;

DECISION MAKING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84865727956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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