Spoken dialogue systems have until recently upheld the simplifying assumption that the conversation between the user and the system occurs in a strict turn-by-turn fashion. In order to have more human-like, uent conversations with computers, a new generation of spoken dialogue systems has arisen that is capable of processing the user’s speech in an incremental way. As the user is speaking, the ...

Resumen. Este artículo describe el Modelo de Realización de Metamorfosis. El propósito principal de este marco es proporcionar la base conceptual necesaria para el establecimiento de vínculos persistentes y controlables entre la especificación de los requisitos funcionales del sistema (expresado como un Modelo de Casos de Uso) y el producto de su análisis (representado a través de un Modelo de ...

7 Abstract 8 In recent years, a question of great interest has been the development of tools and techniques to facilitate the 9 evaluation of dialogue systems. The latter can be evaluated from various points of view, such as recognition and un-10 derstanding rates, dialogue naturalness and robustness against recognition errors. Evaluation usually requires com-11 piling a large corpus of words a...

The abundance of cartographic tools on the Web allows users to become mapmakers. But the use of the cartographic language requires a specific expertise in order to make an efficient map that effectively conveys the message intended by the maker. The research work presented in this article focuses on the help to design efficient and innovative maps. First, we propose some methods to make legends...

This article describes a method for classifying dialogue utterances and detecting the interlocutor’s agreement or disagreement. This labelling can help improve dialogue management by providing additional information on the utterance’s content without deep parsing. The proposed technique improves upon state of the art approaches by using a Support Vector Machine cascade. A combination of three b...

the 56th pugwash conference on science and world affairs opened with a key note address by the italian minister of foreign affairs, massimo d’alema, and the un secretary-general ban ki-moon’s message in bari, italy, on 21 october 2008. in the week-long meeting, the participants discussed a wide array of topics related to regional security issues such as the status of nuclear arms control, the r...