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...
When building a new spoken dialogue application, large amounts of domain specific data are required. This paper addresses the issue of generating in-domain training data when litt...
We have been developing a spoken language system to recognize and understand spontaneous speech. It is difficult for such systems to achieve good coverage of the lexicon and gramm...
Dialogue systems for health communication hold out the promise of providing intelligent assistance to patients through natural interfaces that require no training to use. But in o...
James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Nate Blaylock, Do...