Semantic Frame-Based Spoken Language Understanding

Spoken Language Understanding: Systems for Extracting Semantic Information from Speech

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 41-91

  Wang, Ye Yi ^a   Deng, Li ^a   Acero, Alex ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

"the flight to boston is a cat"; Air Travel Information System (ATIS); Core Language Engine (CLE); Data driven Approaches; Finite state machine (FSM); Knowledge based Solutions; Natural language understanding (NLU); Speech Understanding Research (SUR); Stochastic finitestate transducers (SFST)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886703610     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119992691.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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