Prosodic cues to discourse segment boundaries in human-computer dialogue

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2004 Workshop - 5th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 93-96

  Levow, Gina Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DISCOURSE SEGMENTATION; DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HUMAN-COMPUTER DIALOGUES; INTENSITY FEATURES; MAXIMUM PITCH; MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATIONS; PROSODICS; SPOKEN LANGUAGES; TREE-STRUCTURED;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84982931461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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