System combination for spoken language understanding

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 236-239

  Hahn, Stefan ^a   Lehnen, Patrick ^a   Ney, Hermann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Spoken dialogue systems; System combination

Indexed keywords

LIGHT WEIGHT; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; SYSTEM COMBINATION;

SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84867202681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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