Personal assistants need to allow the user to interact with the system in a flexible and adaptive way such as through spoken language dialogue. In this research we focus on an ap...
Although speech recognition systems have become more reliable in recent years, they are still highly error-prone. Other components of a spoken language dialogue system must then b...
Most existing dialogue systems have been developed specifically for some predefined task domain(s), thus the issues of extensibility and reuse of the dialogue model are often no...
The widespread use of computers and of the internet have brought about human information overload, particularly in the areas of internet searches and email management. This has ma...
The amount of products and services available over the Internet increases significantly and it soon becomes beyond users ability to analyze and compare them. At the same time the n...