Topic Segmentation

Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 291-317

  Purver, Matthew ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Applications and Benchmark Datasets; Basic Approaches, and the Challenge of Speech; Evaluation Metrics; Latent Semantic Analysis LSA; New Trends and Future Directions; Task Description; Technical Approaches; The DARPA Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT); Topic Segmentation; WindowDiff (WD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886651429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119992691.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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