The dialog state tracking challenge

SIGDIAL 2013 - 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 404-413

  Williams, Jason ^a   Raux, Antoine ^b   Ramachandran, Deepak ^c   Black, Alan ^d  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Lenovo Group Ltd   (United States)

^c NUANCE COMMUNICATIONS   (United States)

^d CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

CONFIDENCE SCORE; EVALUATION MEASURES; EVALUATION METRICS; EXTERNAL DATA SOURCES; PERFORMANCE METRICS; RESEARCH GROUPS; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; STANDARD FORMAT;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 84987896853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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