Spoken language is one of the most intuitive forms of interaction between humans and agents. Unfortunately, agents that interact with people using natural language often experienc...
If a dialog system can respond to a user as natural as a human, the interaction will be smoother. In this research, we aim to develop a dialog system which can make various behavi...
In this paper, we describe a new methodology to develop mixed-initiative spoken dialog systems, which is based on the extensive use of simulations to accelerate the development pr...
Statistical Spoken LanguageUnderstandinggrammars (SSLUs) are often used only at the top recognition contexts of modern large-scale spoken dialog systems. We propose to use SSLUs a...
David Suendermann, Keelan Evanini, Jackson Liscomb...
Spoken Language Understanding aims at mapping a natural language spoken sentence into a semantic representation. In the last decade two main approaches have been pursued: generati...
Marco Dinarelli, Alessandro Moschitti, Giuseppe Ri...