Dr. Ward's research involves applying machine learning techniques to the tasks of automatic speech recognition, dialog modeling and extracting semantic representations from speech and text. His recent focus has been on applying these technologies to educational applications.
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automatic speech recognition, dialog modeling, machine learning, natural language processing
Estimating semantic confidence for spoken dialogue systems.
Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing / sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Processing Society. ICASSP (Conference).
233-236.
2002
