Abstract. Negotiation plays a fundamental role in systems composed of multiple autonomous agents. Some negotiations may require a more elaborated dialogue where agents would explai...
Spoken dialogue systems can be considered knowledge-based systems designed to interact with users using speech in order to provide information or carry out simple tasks. Current s...
Evaluation of spoken dialogue systems has been traditionally carried out in terms of instrumentally or expert-derived measures (usually called ``objective" evaluation) and qu...
We present experimental evidence that providing naive users of a spoken dialogue system with immediate help messages related to their out-of-coverage utterances improves their suc...
Beth Ann Hockey, Oliver Lemon, Ellen Campana, Laur...
This paper presents the NICE fairy-tale game system, which enables adults and children to engage in conversation with animated characters in a 3D world. In this paper we argue that...
Joakim Gustafson, Johan Boye, Morgan Fredriksson, ...