Non-native users in the Let’s go!! spoken dialogue system: Dealing with linguistic mismatch

HLT-NAACL 2004 - Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 217-224

  Raux, Antoine ^a   Eskenazi, Maxine ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; MODELING LANGUAGES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH PROCESSING; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DIALOG INTERFACE; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; LANGUAGE MODEL; LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; LINGUISTIC MISMATCHES; NON-NATIVE; NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS; PERFORMANCE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 85117682997     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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