Hypothesis Generation and Maintenance in the Interpretation of Spoken Utterances

The DORIS project (Dialogue Oriented Roaming Interactive System) aims to develop a spoken dialogue module for an autonomous robotic agent. This paper examines the techniques used by Scusi?, the speech interpretation component of DORIS, to postulate and assess hypotheses regarding the meaning of a spoken utterance. The results of our evaluation are encouraging, yielding good interpretation performance for utterances of different types and lengths.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: AUSAI
• Authors: Michael Niemann, Ingrid Zukerman, Enes Makalic, Sarah George
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, AUSAI 2007, Autonomous Robotic Agent, Speech Interpretation Component, Spoken Dialogue Module