Automatic detection of poor speech recognition at the dialogue level

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1999-June, Issue , 1999, Pages 309-316

  Litman, Diane J ^a   Walker, Marilyn A ^a   Kearns, Michael S ^a  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SPEECH PROCESSING;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; DIALOGUE STRATEGY; FIXED STRATEGY; IDEAL SYSTEMS; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; PERFORMANCE; PROPERTY; SPEECH RECOGNIZER; SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEM; USERS' SATISFACTIONS;

SPEECH RECOGNITION;

EID: 85149149896     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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