Exploiting the ASR N-Best by tracking multiple dialog state hypotheses

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 191-194

  Williams, Jason D ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence score; Dialogue management; Dialogue modelling; N Best list; Spoken dialogue systems

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE SCORE; DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT; DIALOGUE MODELLING; N-BEST LIST; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867193227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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