In this paper we present a proposal for the development of dialog systems that, on the one hand, takes into account the benefits of using standards like VoiceXML, whilst on the ot...
We investigate the clarification strategies exhibited by a hybrid POMDP dialog manager based on data obtained from a phone-based user study. The dialog manager combines task struc...
Sebastian Varges, Silvia Quarteroni, Giuseppe Ricc...
The present study explores the vocal intensity of turn-initial cue phrases in a corpus of dialogues in Swedish. Cue phrases convey relatively little propositional content, but hav...
The Workbench for Intelligent exploraTion of Human ComputeR conversaTions is a new platform-independent open-source workbench designed for the analysis, mining and management of l...
We introduce a novel approach for robust belief tracking of user intention within a spoken dialog system. The space of user intentions is modeled by a probabilistic extension of t...
Neville Mehta, Rakesh Gupta, Antoine Raux, Deepak ...