Simulating the behaviour of older versus younger users when interacting with spoken dialogue systems

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 49-52

  Georgila, Kallirroi ^a   Wolters, Maria ^a   Moore, Johanna D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPEECH PROCESSING;

APPOINTMENT SCHEDULING; OLDER ADULTS; PREDICTION-BASED; SCHEDULING SYSTEMS; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; STANDARD METRICS; USER SIMULATION; WIZARD OF OZ; YOUNG ADULTS; YOUNG USER;

SCHEDULING;

EID: 85119960793     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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