Stochastic language generation in dialogue using recurrent neural networks with convolutional sentence reranking

SIGDIAL 2015 - 16th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 275-284

  Wen, Tsung Hsien ^a   Gašić, Milica ^a   Kim, Dongho ^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

CONVOLUTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; LANGUAGE GENERATION; LANGUAGE GENERATORS; NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION; OBJECTIVE METRICS; SEMANTIC ALIGNMENTS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84988423232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.18653/v1/w15-4639     Document Type: Conference Paper

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