Current turn-taking approaches for spoken dialogue systems rely on the speaker releasing the turn before the other can take it. This reliance results in restricted interactions th...
We present a data-driven approach to learn user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. Referring expressions can be difficult to unde...
This overview article reviews the structure of a fully statistical spoken dialogue system (SDS), using as illustration, various systems and components built at Cambridge over the ...
This paper presents PARADISE PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation, a general framework for evaluating and comparing the performance of spoken dialogue agents. The framework d...
Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kam...
While human tutors typically interact with students using spoken dialogue, most computer dialogue tutors are text-based. We have conducted two experiments comparing typed and spoke...