One of the biggest challenges in the development and deployment of spoken dialogue systems is the design of the spoken language generation module. This challenge arises from the n...
In a spoken dialog system, determining which action a machine should take in a given situation is a difficult problem because automatic speech recognition is unreliable and hence ...
We compare the relative utility of different automatically computable linguistic feature sets for modeling student learning in computer dialogue tutoring. We use the PARADISE frame...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman, Amruta Pu...
In this paper, we describe the development of an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) implementing the concept of a companion, i.e. an agent supporting the persistent representatio...
Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Daniel Charlton, Li Z...
The collection and transcription of speech data is typically an expensive and time-consuming task. Voice over IP and cloud computing are poised to greatly reduce this impediment t...
Ian McGraw, Chia-ying Lee, I. Lee Hetherington, St...