Learning to predict problematic situations in a spoken dialogue system: Experiments with how may I help you?

1st Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, NAACL 2000 - co-located with 6th Applied Natural Language Processing Conference, ANLP 2000 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 210-217

  Walker, Marilyn ^a   Langkilde, Irene ^a   Wright, Jerry ^a   Gorin, Allen ^a   Litman, Diane ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; REPAIR; SPEECH PROCESSING;

'CURRENT; DIALOGUE MANAGER; HUMAN-COMPUTER DIALOGUES; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM;

FORECASTING;

EID: 85119664604     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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