In this paper, we introduce the SpeechEval system, a platform for the automatic evaluation of spoken dialog systems on the basis of learned user strategies. The increasing number of spoken dialog systems calls for efficient approaches for their development and testing. The goal of SpeechEval is the minimization of hand-crafted resources to maximize the portability of this evaluation environment...

In this paper, we present a hybrid method for semi-automatic building of domain ontology from spoken dialogue corpus in Tunisian Dialect for the railway request information domain. The proposed method is based on a statistical method for term and concept extraction and a linguistic method for semantic relation extraction. This method consists of three fundamental phases, namely the corpus const...

We propose a non-humanlike spoken dialogue design, which consists of two elements: non-humanlike turn-taking and non-humanlike acknowledgment. Two experimental studies are reported in this paper. The first study shows that the proposed non-humanlike spoken dialogue design is effective for reducing speech collisions. It also presents pieces of evidence that show quick humanlike turn-taking is le...

The Japanese adaptation of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR-J) is a tailored version of the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), designed to better meet the needs of Japanese learners of English. The CEFR-J, like the CEFR, uses illustrative  descriptors  known  as  can-do  statements,  that  describe  achievement  goals  for five  skills  (listening,  reading,  spoken ...

Of the ten million words of contemporary standard Dutch in the Spoken Dutch Corpus (Corpus Gesproken Nederlands, CGN), a selection of one million words of natural spoken language will be annotated syntactically. In the present paper we discuss the tag sets and the annotation procedures that are currently being developed and tested. The annotation tags provide information about syntactic constit...

In this work we describe the development and evaluation of SpeeData, a prototype for multilingual spoken data-entry. The SpeeData project aims at developing a demonstrator that provides a user-friendly interface for spoken data-entry in two languages: Italian and German. A real world application domain is considered, which is the Land Register of an Italian region in which both languages are oo...

the main goal of early detection of hearing impairment in children is early intervention. there is growing interest in early detection of hearing impairment in developing countries. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the spoken language development in severe to profound hearing impaired children and compared their speech intelligibility with normal hearing children at the same ag...

Abstract: This study analyzed classroom interaction patterns in four EFL virtual learning classes at IAIN Parepare: speaking, listening, writing, and reading. The purpose of this was to give an overview involving lecturers students during the process. researchers used a video recorder field notes capture spoken written Data were transcribed codified based on intuitive taxonomy discourse act fra...

Spoken dialog systems have been widely researched, and are in everyday use (e.g., Amtrak’s automated reservation system at 1-800-USA-RAIL). This research, however, has been targeted at Western users – comparatively affluent, literate, with many different options for information access, and with very different realities than those of the typical user in the developing world. Further research is ...