Discriminative spoken language understanding using word confusion networks

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 176-181

  Henderson, Matthew ^a   Gasic, Milica ^a   Thomson, Blaise ^a   Tsiakoulis, Pirros ^a   Yu, Kai ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dialogue systems; Semantic decoding; Spoken language understanding

Indexed keywords

DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; DISCRIMINATIVE APPROACH; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; INPUT/OUTPUT; OUTPUT DISTRIBUTION; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; RECOGNITION ERROR; ROBUST METHODS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; SVM CLASSIFIERS; SYSTEM OUTPUT; SYSTEM USE; WORD CONFUSION NETWORKS;

SEMANTICS;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 84874271224     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2012.6424218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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