The work in this paper is based on the claim that collaborative dialogue involves taking into account how much information an utterance conveys, in the sense that it thereby shows...
Repair or error-recovery strategies are an important design issue in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs) - how to conduct the dialogue when there is no progress (e.g. due to repeated A...
Robust Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a key component of spoken dialogue systems. Recent statistical approaches to this problem require additional resources (e.g. gazettee...
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...
We present new results from a real-user evaluation of a data-driven approach to learning user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. ...