Towards empirical dialog-state modeling and its use in language modeling

13th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association 2012, INTERSPEECH 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 2311-2314

  Ward, Nigel G ^a   Vega, Alejandro ^a  

^a University of Texas at El Paso   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Dialog activities; Dimensions; Perplexity; Principal component analysis; Prosody

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT; DIALOG ACTIVITIES; DIMENSIONS; PERPLEXITY; PROSODY;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84878585505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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