Promoting extension and reuse in a spoken dialog manager

Bootstrapping Spoken Dialog Systems with Data Reuse

Building natural language spoken dialog systems requires large amounts of human transcribed and labeled speech utterances to reach useful operational service performances. Furthermore, the design of such complex systems consists of several manual steps. The User Experience (UE) expert analyzes and defines by hand the system core functionalities: the system semantic scope (call-types) and the di...

A Multilingual Spoken Dialog System

This paper will briefly introduce MSDSKIT-1 (Multilingual Spoken Dialogue System Version 1.0 developed by Kyoto Institute of Technology) which integrates Japanese and Chinese now. It is a promotion vision of the SDSKIT-3 (Spoken Dialogue System in Japanese). This system can provide services such as sight-seeing introduction, traffic guidance, hotel reservation. A user can also plan his itinerar...

Star - A Multiple Domain Dialog Manager

We present a dialogue manager that is able to handle multiple domains simultaneously. Our dialogue manager consists of five modules, one of which, the Task Manager, deserves special attention. Each domain is represented by a frame, which is in turn composed by slots and rules. Slots define domain data relationships, and rules define the system’s behavior. The use of frames allowed the remaining...

Dialog structure and plan recognition in spontaneous spoken dialog

A study in responsiveness in spoken dialog

The future of human-computer interfaces may include systems which are humanlike in abilities and behavior. One particularly interesting aspect of human-to-human communication is the ability of some conversation partners to sensitively pick up on the nuances of the other’s utterances, as they shift from moment to moment, and to use this information to subtly adjust responses to express interest,...