Abstract. In a spoken dialogue system, the speech recognition performance accounts for the largest part of the overall system performance. Yet spontaneous speech recognition has an...
Abstract. User behaviors on a system vary not only among individuals but also within the same user when he/she gains experience on the system. We empirically investigated how indiv...
Kazunori Komatani, Tatsuya Kawahara, Hiroshi G. Ok...
Older adults are a challenging user group because their behaviour can be highly variable. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study where dialogue strategies are learn...
Kallirroi Georgila, Maria Wolters, Johanna D. Moor...
Evaluation of complex, collaborative dialogue systems is a difficult task. Traditionally, developers have relied upon subjective feedback from the user, and parametrisation over o...
Spoken dialogue is notoriously hard to process with standard language processing technologies. Dialogue systems must indeed meet two major challenges. First, natural spoken dialogu...