Larry P. Heck — accepted AI-conference papers

2018

(Almost) Zero-Shot Cross-Lingual Spoken Language Understanding

Shyam Upadhyay, Manaal Faruqui, Gökhan Tür, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Larry P. Heck

ICASSP 2018accepted

Spoken language understanding (SLU) is a component of goal-oriented dialogue systems that aims to interpret user's natural language queries in system's semantic representation format. While current state-of-the-art SLU approaches achieve high performance for English domains, the same is not true for…

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2017

Learning concepts through conversations in spoken dialogue systems

Robin Jia, Larry P. Heck, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Georgi Nikolov

ICASSP 2017accepted

Spoken dialogue systems must be able to recover gracefully from unexpected user inputs. In many cases, these unexpected utterances may be within the scope of the system, but include previously unseen phrases that the system cannot interpret. In this work, we augment a spoken dialogue system with the…

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