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DEXAW
2010
IEEE
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Flexible, Robust and Dynamic Dialogue Modeling with a Speech Dialogue Interface for Controlling a Hi-Fi Audio System
This work is focused on the context of speech interfaces for controlling household electronic devices. In particular, we present an example of a spoken dialogue system for controll...
Fernando F. Fernández-Martínez, Javi...
AAAI
1990
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Logical Task Modelling for Man-Machine Dialogue
To design a task-independent dialogue system, we present a task-oriented dialogue analysis in terms of finding the referents of definite descriptions and we show how this analysis...
M. David Sadek
COLING
1996
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GRICE INCORPORATED Cooperativity in Spoken Dialogue
The paper presents a consolidated set of principles of cooperative spoken human-machine dialogue which have the potential tor being turned into practically applicable design guide...
Laila Dybkjær, Niels Ole Bernsen, Hans Dybkj...
COLING
2000
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Automatic Optimization of Dialogue Management
Designing the dialogue strategy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing di...
Diane J. Litman, Michael S. Kearns, Satinder P. Si...
EACL
2003
ACL Anthology
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Meaningful Conversation with a Mobile Robot
We describe an implementation integrating a spoken dialogue system with a mobile robot, which the user can direct to specific locations, ask for information about its status, and...
Johan Bos, Ewan Klein, Tetsushi Oka
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
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Data-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays
We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of Different Segmentation Techniques for Dialogue Turns
In dialogue systems, it is necessary to decode the user input into semantically meaningful units. These semantical units, usually Dialogue Acts (DA), are used by the system to pro...
Carlos D. Martínez-Hinarejos, Vicent Tamari...
LREC
2008
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Talking and Looking: the SmartWeb Multimodal Interaction Corpus
Nowadays portable devices such as smart phones can be used to capture the face of a user simultaneously with the voice input. Server based or even embedded dialogue system might u...
Florian Schiel, Hannes Mögele
LREC
2008
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Information Extraction Tools and Methods for Understanding Dialogue in a Companion
This paper discusses how Information Extraction is used to understand and manage Dialogue in the EU-funded Companions project. This will be discussed with respect to the Senior Co...
Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, Hugo Pinto, Yori...
LREC
2010
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Evaluating Human-Machine Conversation for Appropriateness
Evaluation of complex, collaborative dialogue systems is a difficult task. Traditionally, developers have relied upon subjective feedback from the user, and parametrisation over o...
Nick Webb, David Benyon, Preben Hansen, Oli Mival