In spoken dialogues, if a spoken dialogue system does not respond at all during user's utterances, the user might feel uneasy because the user does not know whether or not th...
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...
This paper presents a method for adapting a language generator to the strengths and weaknesses of a synthetic voice, thereby improving the naturalness of synthetic speech in a spo...
We present new results from a real-user evaluation of a data-driven approach to learning user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. ...
Speech repairs occur often in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is necessary for any spoken language system. We present a framework to ...