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ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Dependencies between Student State and Speech Recognition Problems in Spoken Tutoring Dialogues
Speech recognition problems are a reality in current spoken dialogue systems. In order to better understand these phenomena, we study dependencies between speech recognition probl...
Mihai Rotaru, Diane J. Litman
LREC
2008
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Uncertainty Corpus: Resource to Study User Affect in Complex Spoken Dialogue Systems
We present a corpus of spoken dialogues between students and an adaptive Wizard-of-Oz tutoring system, in which student uncertainty was manually annotated in real-time. We detail ...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman, Scott Sil...
LREC
2010
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Towards Investigating Effective Affective Dialogue Strategies
We describe an experimental Wizard-of-Oz-setup for the integration of emotional strategies into spoken dialogue management. With this setup we seek to evaluate different approache...
Gregor Bertrand, Florian Nothdurft, Steffen Walter...
LREC
2010
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Efficient Spoken Dialogue Domain Representation and Interpretation
We provide a detailed look on the functioning of the OwlSpeak Spoken Dialogue Manager, which is part of the EU-funded project ATRACO. OwlSpeak interprets Spoken Dialogue Ontologie...
Tobias Heinroth, Dan Denich, Alexander Schmitt, Wo...
LREC
2010
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Towards an Integrated Scheme for Semantic Annotation of Multimodal Dialogue Data
This paper investigates the applicability of existing dialogue act annotation schemes, designed for the analysis of spoken dialogue, to the semantic annotation of multimodal data,...
Volha Petukhova, Harry Bunt
LREC
2010
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Using Dialogue Corpora to Extend Information Extraction Patterns for Natural Language Understanding of Dialogue
This paper examines how Natural Language Process (NLP) resources and online dialogue corpora can be used to extend coverage of Information Extraction (IE) templates in a Spoken Di...
Roberta Catizone, Alexiei Dingli, Robert J. Gaizau...
COLING
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Bayes Risk-based Dialogue Management for Document Retrieval System with Speech Interface
We propose an efficient dialogue management for an information navigation system based on a document knowledge base with a spoken dialogue interface. In order to perform robustly ...
Teruhisa Misu, Tatsuya Kawahara
AIMSA
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Machine Learning for Spoken Dialogue Management: An Experiment with Speech-Based Database Querying
Although speech and language processing techniques achieved a relative maturity during the last decade, designing a spoken dialogue system is still a tailoring task because of the ...
Olivier Pietquin
ACII
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Investigating Human Tutor Responses to Student Uncertainty for Adaptive System Development
We use a χ2 analysis on our spoken dialogue tutoring corpus to investigate dependencies between uncertain student answers and 9 dialogue acts the human tutor uses in his response ...
Katherine Forbes-Riley, Diane J. Litman
KI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Robust Processing of Situated Spoken Dialogue
Spoken dialogue is notoriously hard to process with standard language processing technologies. Dialogue systems must indeed meet two major challenges. First, natural spoken dialogu...
Pierre Lison, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff