Conversational dialogue systems cannot be evaluated in a fully formal manner, because dialogue is heavily dependent on context and current dialogue theory is not precise enough to ...
Ron Artstein, Sudeep Gandhe, Jillian Gerten, Anton...
Conversational modeling requires an extended time commitment, and the difficulty associated with capturing the wide range of conversational stimuli necessitates extended user parti...
Shivashankar Halan, Brent Rossen, Juan Cendan, Ben...
This paper describes recent advances at LIMSI in Mandarin Chinese speech-to-text transcription. A number of novel approaches were introduced in the different system components. Th...
Lori Lamel, Jean-Luc Gauvain, Viet-Bac Le, Ilya Op...
Hidden markov model (HMM) is frequently used for Pinyin-toChinese conversion. But it only captures the dependency with the preceding character. Higher order markov models can brin...
Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) are computer generated life-like characters that interact with human users in face-to-face conversations. To achieve natural multi-modal conve...
Hung-Hsuan Huang, Aleksandra Cerekovic, Kateryna T...