Robust Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) is a key component of spoken dialogue systems. Recent statistical approaches to this problem require additional resources (e.g. gazettee...
We show how the DOP model can be used for fast and robust processing of spoken input in a practical spoken dialogue system called OVIS. OVIS, Openbaar Vervoer Informatie Systeem (...
We argue for the necessity of studying human-human spoken conversations of various kinds in order to create user interfaces to databases. An efficient user interface benefits from...
Tiit Hennoste, Olga Gerassimenko, Riina Kasterpalu...
Current turn-taking approaches for spoken dialogue systems rely on the speaker releasing the turn before the other can take it. This reliance results in restricted interactions th...
This paper presents Delphi, the natural language component of the BBN Spoken Language System. Delphi is a domainindependent natural language question answering system that is soli...
Madeleine Bates, Robert J. Bobrow, Robert Ingria, ...