Near-term spoken language systems willlikely be limited in their interactive capabilities. To design them, we shall need to model how the presence or absence of speaker interactio...
This paper describes an XPath-based discourse analysis module for Spoken Dialogue Systems that allows the dialogue author to easily manipulate and query both the user input's...
This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the role of some discourse markers and the vocalic hesitation euh in a corpus of spoken human utterances collected with the RITEL sys...
Ioana Vasilescu, Sophie Rosset, Martine Adda-Decke...
Spoken language, especially spoken German, is rich in particles that do not contribute to the propositional content of utterances, but play important roles in steering the flow of ...
Abstract. In this paper we describe our efforts to increase the entertainment value of the stories generated by our story generation system, the Virtual Storyteller, at the levels...