INTERSPEECH
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
Statistical user simulation is an efficient and effective way to train and evaluate the performance of a (spoken) dialog system. In this paper, we design and evaluate a modular da...
CSL
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
2011
Springer
The automatic recognition of user’s communicative style within a spoken dialog system framework, including the affective aspects, has received increased attention in the past f...
ICMCS
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2009
IEEE
The importance of dialog management systems has increased in recent years. Dialog systems are created for domain specific applications, so that a high demand for a flexible dialog...
HCI
2009
13 years 2 months ago
2009
The main goal of dialog management is to provide all information needed to perform e. g. a SQL-query, a navigation task, etc. Two principal approaches for dialog management systems...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Dialog modeling in robotics suffers from lack of generalizability, due to the fact that the dialog is heavily influenced by the tasks the robot is able to perform. We introduce in...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
Statistical user simulation is a promising methodology to train and evaluate the performance of (spoken) dialog systems. We work with a modular architecture for data-driven simula...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
In this paper we present a proposal for the development of dialog systems that, on the one hand, takes into account the benefits of using standards like VoiceXML, whilst on the ot...
SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
2010
We investigate the clarification strategies exhibited by a hybrid POMDP dialog manager based on data obtained from a phone-based user study. The dialog manager combines task struc...
CSL
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
We present a new methodology of user simulation applied to the evaluation and refinement of stochastic dialog systems. Common weaknesses of these systems are the scarceness of the...
EACL
1989
ACL Anthology
13 years 5 months ago
1989
ACL Anthology
In this paper a method for controlling the dialog in a natural language (NL) system is presented. It provides a deep modeling of information processing based on time dependent pro...