Comparison and combination of lightly supervised approaches for language portability of a spoken language understanding system

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 636-648

  Jabaian, Bassam ^a,b   Besacier, Laurent ^a   Lefevre, Fabrice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVIGNON   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Language portability; spoken dialogue systems; spoken language understanding; statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT ERROR RATES; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; LOW COSTS; MODULE-BASED; PHRASE-BASED STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TARGET LANGUAGE;

LINGUISTICS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84872203606     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2229983     Document Type: Article

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