A data-driven spoken language understanding system

2003 IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding, ASRU 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 583-588

  He, Yulan ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; SEMANTICS;

DATA DRIVEN; EXPLICIT SEMANTICS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; LONG-RANGE DEPENDENCIES; SEMANTIC GRAMMAR RULES; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; TRAINING CORPUS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84905239235     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASRU.2003.1318505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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