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Data generation approaches for topic classification in multilingual spoken dialog systems

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PETRA '19: Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

Pages 211 - 217

https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3316792

Published: 05 June 2019 Publication History

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The conception of spoken-dialog systems (SDS) usually faces the problem of extending or adapting the system to multiple languages. This implies the creation of modules specifically for the new languages, which is a time consuming process. In this paper, we propose two methods to reduce the time needed to extend the SDS to other languages. Our methods are particularly oriented to the topic classification and semantic tagging tasks and we evaluate their effectiveness on topic classification for three languages: English, Spanish, French.

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PETRA '19: Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

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ISBN:9781450362320

DOI:10.1145/3316782

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Machado Se Sá J(2021)Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in Domain Classification of Scientific Knowledge Objects: A ReviewAdvances in Information and Communication10.1007/978-3-030-73103-8_55(773-784)Online publication date: 16-Apr-2021
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Montenegro CSantana RLozano J(2020) Transfer learning in hierarchical dialogue topic classification with neural networks * 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9206680(1-8)Online publication date: Jul-2020
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