Conditional random fields for responsive surface realisation using global features

ACL 2013 - 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1254-1263

  Dethlefs, Nina ^a   Hastie, Helen ^a   Cuayáhuitl, Heriberto ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELDS(CRFS); GLOBAL FEATURE; LOCAL CONTEXTS; LOCAL FEATURE; RESPONSIVE SURFACES; SEMANTIC TREE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84907324581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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