Data processing: speech signal processing – linguistics – language – Speech signal processing – For storage or transmission
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2011-08-09
2011-08-09
Lerner, Martin (Department: 2626)
Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language
Speech signal processing
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C704S230000, C704S240000, C704S255000
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07996214
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed are a system and method for exploiting information in an utterance for dialog act tagging. An exemplary method includes receiving a user utterance, computing at periodic intervals at least one parameter in the user utterance, quantizing the at least one parameter at each periodic interval, approximating conditional probabilities using an n-gram over a sliding window over the periodic intervals and tagging the utterance as a dialog act based on the approximated conditional probabilities.
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Bangalore Srinivas
Rangarajan Sridhar Vivek Kumar
AT&T Intellectual Property I L.P.
Lerner Martin
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