Semantic parsing using word confusion networks with conditional random fields

Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2579-2583

  Tur, Gokhan ^a   Deoras, Anoop ^a   Hakkani Tür, Dilek ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional random field; Natural language understanding; Semantic parsing; Word confusion network

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS(CRFS); NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; SEMANTIC PARSING; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; WORD CONFUSION NETWORKS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84905246040     PISSN: 2308457X     EISSN: 19909772     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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