Landmark-based location belief tracking in a spoken dialog system

SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 169-178

  Ma, Yi ^a   Raux, Antoine ^b   Ramachandran, Deepak ^b   Gupta, Rakesh ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

CANDIDATE LOCATIONS; DISTANCE MEASURE; GRAPHICAL MODEL; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATORS; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS; TRACKING SYSTEM;

LOCATION;

EID: 84987968806     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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