SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Statistical user simulation is a promising methodology to train and evaluate the performance of (spoken) dialog systems. We work with a modular architecture for data-driven simula...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
We describe work done at three sites on designing conversational agents capable of incremental processing. We focus on the `middleware' layer in these systems, which takes ca...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
This paper introduces a new dialogue management framework for goal-directed conversations. A declarative specification defines the domain-specific elements and guides the dialogue...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
Two of the main corpora available for training discourse relation classifiers are the RST Discourse Treebank (RST-DT) and the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB), which are both based ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
This paper presents an agenda-based user simulator which has been extended to be trainable on real data with the aim of more closely modelling the complex rational behaviour exhib...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
This paper presents a dialogue system in the form of an ECA that acts as a sociable and emotionally intelligent companion for the user. The system dialogue is not task-driven but ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
This paper proposes a novel approach for predicting user satisfaction transitions during a dialogue only from the ratings given to entire dialogues, with the aim of reducing the c...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
In spoken communications, correction utterances, which are utterances correcting other participants utterances and behaviors, play crucial roles, and detecting them is one of the ...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010
In this paper we examine the influence of dimensionality on natural language route directions in dialogue. Specifically, we show that giving route instructions in a quasi-3d envir...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 5 months ago
2010