UMUAI
1998
13 years 4 months ago
1998
In this paper, we argue for the need to distinguish between task initiative and dialogue initiative, and present an evidential model for tracking shifts in both types of initiativ...
CORR
1999
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
1999
Springer
Abstract. Recent technological advances have made it possible to build real-time, interactive spoken dialogue systems for a wide variety of applications. However, when users do not...
JAIR
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Designing the dialogue policy of a spoken dialogue system involves many nontrivial choices. This paper presents a reinforcement learning approach for automatically optimizing a di...
CSL
1998
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
1998
Springer
This paper presents PARADISE PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation , a general framework for evaluating and comparing the performance of spoken dialogue agents. The framework d...
CSL
2002
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Springer
In this paper, we describe a generation system for spoken dialogue that not only produces coherent, informative and responsive dialogue contributions, but also explicitly models h...
COLING
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
We present an architecture for spoken dialogue systems where first-order inference (both theorem proving and model building) plays a crucial role in interpreting utterances of dia...
TCSV
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
An audio-assisted system is investigated that detects if a movie scene is a dialogue or not. The system is based on actor indicator functions. That is, functions which define if an...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Although dialogue systems have been an area of research for decades, finding accurate ways of evaluating different systems is still a very active subfield since many leading metho...
SPEECH
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper presents an overview of methods that can be used to collect and analyse data on user responses to spoken dialogue system components intended to increase human-likeness,...
AIL
2005
13 years 4 months ago
2005
In this paper we show how dialogue-based theories of argumentation can contribute to the construction of effective systems of dispute resolution. Specifically we consider the role ...