Training a dialogue act tagger for human-human and human-computer travel dialogues

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2002 Workshop - 3rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 162-173

  Prasad, Rashmi ^a   Walker, Marilyn ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

AUTOMATIC CLASSIFIERS; DIALOG ACTS; HIGH-ACCURACY; HUMAN DIALOGUES; INFORMATION PROVIDER; LABELING SCHEME; PLANNING DOMAINS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; TRAINING AND TESTING; TRAVEL PLANNING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 85019103495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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