Semantically conditioned lstm-based Natural language generation for spoken dialogue systems

Conference Proceedings - EMNLP 2015: Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1711-1721

  Wen, Tsung Hsien ^a   Gašić, Milica ^a   Mrkšić, Nikola ^a   Su, Pei Hao ^a   Vandyke, David ^a   Young, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CRITICAL COMPONENT; LANGUAGE GENERATORS; LANGUAGE VARIATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; NATURAL VARIATION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PERCEIVED QUALITY; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

LONG SHORT-TERM MEMORY;

EID: 84959897734     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/d15-1199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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