This paper describes a system that leads us to believe in the feasibility of constructing natural spoken dialogue systems in task-oriented domains. It specifically addresses the i...
James F. Allen, Bradford W. Miller, Eric K. Ringge...
Repair or error-recovery strategies are an important design issue in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDSs) - how to conduct the dialogue when there is no progress (e.g. due to repeated A...
In spoken dialogues, if a spoken dialogue system does not respond at all during user's utterances, the user might feel uneasy because the user does not know whether or not th...
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...
This paper presents a robust parsing algorithm and semantic formalism for the interpretation of utterances in spoken negotiative dialogue with databases. The algorithm works in tw...