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ACL
2010
13 years 10 months ago
Optimising Information Presentation for Spoken Dialogue Systems
We present a novel approach to Information Presentation (IP) in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) using a data-driven statistical optimisation framework for content planning and attri...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon, Xingkun Liu
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
Data-driven Classification of Linguistic Styles in Spoken Dialogues
Language users have individual linguistic styles. A spoken dialogue system may benefit from adapting to the linguistic style of a user in input analysis and output generation. To ...
Thomas Portele
COLING
2002
14 years 8 days ago
An Inference-based Approach to Dialogue System Design
We present an architecture for spoken dialogue systems where first-order inference (both theorem proving and model building) plays a crucial role in interpreting utterances of dia...
Johan Bos, Tetsushi Oka
CLIN
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Multi-feature Error Detection in Spoken Dialogue Systems
The present paper evaluates the role selected features and feature combinations play for error detection in spoken dialogue systems. We investigate the relevance of various, readi...
Piroska Lendvai, Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahme...
ACL
2001
14 years 1 months ago
Detecting Problematic Turns in Human-Machine Interactions: Rule-induction Versus Memory-based Learning Approaches
We address the issue of on-line detection of communication problems in spoken dialogue systems. The usefulness is investigated of the sequence of system question types and the wor...
Antal van den Bosch, Emiel Krahmer, Marc Swerts
LREC
2010
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14 years 1 months ago
WITcHCRafT: A Workbench for Intelligent exploraTion of Human ComputeR conversaTions
We present Witchcraft, an open-source framework for the evaluation of prediction models for spoken dialogue systems based on interaction logs and audio recordings. The use of Witc...
Alexander Schmitt, Gregor Bertrand, Tobias Heinrot...
ACL
2008
14 years 1 months ago
Mixture Model POMDPs for Efficient Handling of Uncertainty in Dialogue Management
In spoken dialogue systems, Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a formal framework for making dialogue management decisions under uncertainty, but effi...
James Henderson, Oliver Lemon
IJCNLP
2005
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Instance-Based Generation for Interactive Restricted Domain Question Answering Systems
Abstract. One important component of interactive systems is the generation component. While template-based generation is appropriate in many cases (for example, task oriented spoke...
Matthias Denecke, Hajime Tsukada
SEFM
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Formalising Control in Robust Spoken Dialogue Systems
The spoken language interface is now becoming an increasingly serious research topic with application to a wide range of highly engineered systems. Such systems not only include i...
Hui Shi, Robert J. Ross, John A. Bateman
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Accurate statistical spoken language understanding from limited development resources
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...
I. V. Meza-Ruiz, Sebastian Riedel, Oliver Lemon