Mobile Internet access via smartphones puts demands on in-car infotainment systems, as more and more drivers like to access the Internet while driving. Spoken dialog systems support the user by less distracting interaction than visual/hapticbased dialog systems. To develop an intuitive and usable spoken dialog system, an extensive analysis of the interaction concept is necessary. We conducted a...

In this paper, we present a GOLD standard of part-of-speech tagged transcripts of spoken German. The GOLD standard data consists of four annotation layers – transcription (modified orthography), normalization (standard orthography), lemmatization and POS tags – all of which have undergone careful manual quality control. It comes with guidelines for the manual POS annotation of transcripts of Ge...

During speech comprehension, bilinguals co-activate both of their languages, resulting in cross-linguistic interaction at various levels of processing. This interaction has important consequences for both the structure of the language system and the mechanisms by which the system processes spoken language. Using computational modeling, we can examine how cross-linguistic interaction affects lan...

We address an e ective application of spoken dialogue interface by combining with virtual space technologies. Virtual space enables us to do what cannot be done in the real world with feeling as if doing in the real world. Spoken dialogue systems are to realize our intention by understanding expressions that include concept and a nuance. We clari ed advantages and disadvantages of speech interf...

Current-day spoken dialogue systems are tedious to interact with (Ward et al. 2005). eir naturalness and (measurable) quality of interaction can be improved through incremental (step-by-step) processing schemes that enable dialogue systems to interact continuously (Baumann 2013). However, incremental models have not yet adequately addressed the challenge of joint decision making and optimizatio...

In this paper we discuss the design of human-robot interaction focussing especially on social robot communication and multimodal information presentation. As a starting point we use the WikiTalk application, an open-domain conversational system which has been previously developed using a robotics simulator. We describe how it can be implemented on the Nao robot platform, enabling Nao to make in...

If a dialog system could respond to a user as naturally as a human, the interaction would be smoother. Imitating human prosodic characteristics of utterances is important in computerto-human natural interaction. To develop a cooperative/friendly spoken dialog system, we analyzed the correlation between the fundamental frequency’s synchrony tendency, or overlap frequency, and subjective measures...

Spoken dialogue systems have been proposed to enable a more natural and intuitive interaction with the environment and human-computer interfaces. In this contribution, we present a framework based on neural networks that allows modeling of the user's intention during the dialogue and uses this prediction to dynamically adapt the dialogue model of the system taking into consideration the user's ...

Acknowledgments are relatively rare in humancomputer interaction. Are people unwilling to use this human convention when talking to a machine, or is their scarcity due to the way that spoken-language interfaces are designed? We found that, given a simple spoken-language interface that provided opportunities for and responded to acknowle d g m e n t s , abou t h a l f of our sub j ec t s u s e d...