The problems involved in the development of user interfaces become even more severe through the ubiquitous use of a variety of devices such as PCs, mobile phones and PDAs. Each of...
This paper introduces a new corpus of consulting dialogues designed for training a dialogue manager that can handle consulting dialogues through spontaneous interactions from the ...
Kiyonori Ohtake, Teruhisa Misu, Chiori Hori, Hidek...
This paper presents a neural network approach to the problem of nding the dialogue act for a given utterance. So far only symbolic, decision tree and statistical approaches were ut...
This paper presents a novel approach and interface for encouraging children to tell and act out original stories. "Dolltalk" is a toy that simulates speech recognition b...
We analyze the concept of focus in speech and the relationship between focus and speech acts for prosodic generation. We determine how the speaker's utterances are influenced...