The NWO Priority Programme Language and Speech Technology is a 5-year research programme aiming at the development of spoken language information systems. In the Programme, two al...
Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Gosse Bouma, Khalil S...
The DORIS project (Dialogue Oriented Roaming Interactive System) aims to develop a spoken dialogue module for an autonomous robotic agent. This paper examines the techniques used b...
Michael Niemann, Ingrid Zukerman, Enes Makalic, Sa...
This paper presents an overview of methods that can be used to collect and analyse data on user responses to spoken dialogue system components intended to increase human-likeness,...
Techniques for automatically training modules of a natural language generator have recently been proposed, but a fundamental concern is whether the quality of utterances produced ...
This paper describes a novel method by which a dialogue agent can learn to choose an optimal dialogue strategy. While it is widely agreed that dialogue strategies should be formul...
Marilyn A. Walker, Jeanne Frommer, Shrikanth Naray...