Discriminative state tracking for spoken dialog systems

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 466-475

  Metallinou, Angeliki ^a   Bohus, Dan ^b   Williams, Jason D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; NEW APPROACHES; OFFLINE EVALUATION; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; PROBLEM STRUCTURE; RECOGNITION ERROR; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84907349381     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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