Data-driven strategies for an automated dialogue system

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 71-78

  Hardy, Hilda ^a   Strzalkowski, Tomek ^a   Wu, Min ^a   Ursu, Cristian ^b   Webb, Nick ^b   Biermann, Alan ^c   Inouye, R Bryce ^c   McKenzie, Ashley ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

CALL CENTERS; DATA DRIVEN; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; DIALOGUE SYSTEMS; FINANCIAL SERVICE; HUMAN-COMPUTER DIALOGUES; LANGUAGE PROBLEMS; MIXED SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PROBLEM-SOLVING;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 85149115934     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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