On the role of discourse markers in interactive spoken question answering systems

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2450-2456

  Vasilescu, Ioana ^a   Rosset, Sophie ^a   Adda Decker, Martine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE MARKERS; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DIALOG SYSTEMS;

EID: 85009729164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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