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...
We describe a two-layer architecture for supporting semantic interpretation and domain reasoning in dialogue systems. Building systems that support both semantic interpretation an...
Myroslava Dzikovska, James F. Allen, Mary D. Swift
This paper explains how Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) can provide a principled mathematical framework for modelling the inherent uncertainty in spoken di...
Steve Young, Milica Gasic, Simon Keizer, Fran&cced...
When people engage in conversation, they tailor their utterances to their conversational partners, whether these partners are other humans or computational systems. This tailoring...
Marilyn A. Walker, Steve Whittaker, Amanda Stent, ...
We argue that grammatical analysis is a viable alternative to concept spotting for processing spoken input in a practical spoken dialogue system. We discuss the structure of the g...
Gertjan van Noord, Gosse Bouma, Rob Koeling, Mark-...