An empirical investigation of sparse log-linear models for improved dialogue act classification

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 8317-8321

  Chen, Yun Nung ^a   Wang, William Yang ^a   Rudnicky, Alexander I ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogue act classification; discriminative model; log linear model; maximum entropy; sparsity

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; DEPENDENCY STRUCTURES; DIALOGUE ACTS; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; LOGLINEAR MODEL; SPARSITY; STRUCTURED SPARSITIES;

MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890528455     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2013.6639287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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