Evaluating a city exploration dialogue system combining question-answering and pedestrian navigation

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 1660-1668

  Janarthanam, Srinivasan ^a   Lemon, Oliver ^a   Bartie, Phil ^b   Dalmas, Tiphaine ^b   Dickinson, Anna ^b   Liu, Xingkun ^a   Mackaness, William ^b   Webber, Bonnie ^b  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; SPEECH PROCESSING;

DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TASKS; INTEGRATED FASHION; MOBILE APPS; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; QUESTION ANSWERING; SAMSUNG; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84907368518     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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