Mixed membership Markov models for unsupervised conversation modeling

EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 94-104

  Paul, Michael J ^a  

^a Whiting School of Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE MODELS; HIDDEN STATE; MARKOV MODEL; MULTIPLE CLASS; PERCENTAGE POINTS; RECONSTRUCTION ACCURACY; SPEECH ACTS; WORD-CLUSTERS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883354093     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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