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BXML
2003
13 years 6 months ago
XML-Based Dialogue Descriptions in the GEMINI Project
Abstract: GEMINI (Generic Environment for Multilingual Interactive Natural Interfaces) is an EC funded research project. The goal of GEMINI is to provide a flexible platform for t...
Stefan W. Hamerich, Yu-Fang H. Wang, Volker Schube...
ACL
2003
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Discourse Chunking: A Tool in Dialogue Act Tagging
Discourse chunking is a simple way to segment dialogues according to how dialogue participants raise topics and negotiate them. This paper explains a method for arranging dialogue...
T. Daniel Midgley
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Flexible Guidance Generation Using User Model in Spoken Dialogue Systems
We address appropriate user modeling in order to generate cooperative responses to each user in spoken dialogue systems. Unlike previous studies that focus on user’s knowledge o...
Kazunori Komatani, Shinichi Ueno, Tatsuya Kawahara...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Using Reinforcement Learning to Build a Better Model of Dialogue State
Given the growing complexity of tasks that spoken dialogue systems are trying to handle, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been increasingly used as a way of automatically learning ...
Joel R. Tetreault, Diane J. Litman
AAAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
SCoT: A Spoken Conversational Tutor
We describe SCoT, a Spoken Conversational Tutor, which has been implemented in order to investigate the advantages of natural language in tutoring, especially spoken language. SCo...
Karl Schultz, Brady Clark, Heather Pon-Barry, Eliz...
NAACL
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Tutorial Dialogue Systems Using Deep NLP Techniques
We present tutorial dialogue systems in two different domains that demonstrate the use of dialogue management and deep natural language processing techniques. Generation technique...
Myroslava Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine F...
IJCAI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
Case-Based Techniques Used for Dialogue Understanding and Planning in a Human-Robot Dialogue System
We describe an approach to the use of case-based techniques for natural language understanding and for action planning in a system for dialogue between a human and a robot, which ...
Karolina Eliasson
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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On the Role of the NIMITEK Corpus in Developing an Emotion Adaptive Spoken Dialogue System
This paper reports on the creation of the multimodal NIMITEK corpus of affected behavior in human-machine interaction and its role in the development of the NIMITEK prototype syst...
Milan Gnjatovic, Dietmar Rösner
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...