A reranking approach for recognition and classification of speech input in conversational dialogue systems

2012 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 49-54

  Morbini, Fabrizio ^a   Audhkhasi, Kartik ^a   Artstein, Ron ^a   Van Segbroeck, Maarten ^a   Sagae, Kenji ^a   Georgiou, Panayiotis ^a   Traum, David R ^a   Narayanan, Shri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic speech recognition; Interactive systems; Natural language processing; Supervised learning

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION OF SPEECH; CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE SYSTEM; JOINT MODELING; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RE-RANKING; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; UTTERANCE CLASSIFICATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84874249484     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424196     Document Type: Conference Paper

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