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SIGDIAL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Adaptive Referring Expression Generation in Spoken Dialogue Systems: Evaluation with Real Users
We present new results from a real-user evaluation of a data-driven approach to learning user-adaptive referring expression generation (REG) policies for spoken dialogue systems. ...
Srinivasan Janarthanam, Oliver Lemon
VLC
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
An exploration of diversified user strategies for image retrieval with relevance feedback
Given the difficulty of setting up large-scale experiments with real users, the comparison of content-based image retrieval methods using relevance feedback usually relies on the ...
Michel Crucianu, Jean-Philippe Tarel, Marin Fereca...
AVI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A visual tool for tracing users' behavior in Virtual Environments
Although some guidelines (e.g., based on architectural principles) have been proposed for designing Virtual Environments (VEs), several usability problems can be identified only b...
Luca Chittaro, Lucio Ieronutti
LREC
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Automatic Learning and Evaluation of User-Centered Objective Functions for Dialogue System Optimisation
The ultimate goal when building dialogue systems is to satisfy the needs of real users, but quality assurance for dialogue strategies is a non-trivial problem. The applied evaluat...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Learning Effective Multimodal Dialogue Strategies from Wizard-of-Oz Data: Bootstrapping and Evaluation
We address two problems in the field of automatic optimization of dialogue strategies: learning effective dialogue strategies when no initial data or system exists, and evaluating...
Verena Rieser, Oliver Lemon
UM
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Data-Driven Refinement of a Probabilistic Model of User Affect
We present further developments in our work on using data from real users to build a probabilistic model of user affect based on Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs) and designed to de...
Cristina Conati, Heather Maclaren
UM
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Preference-Based Organization Interfaces: Aiding User Critiques in Recommender Systems
Users’ critiques to the current recommendation form a crucial feedback mechanism for refining their preference models and improving a system’s accuracy in recommendations that ...
Li Chen, Pearl Pu