Theme: Dialogue management strategies for spoken dialogue system
Procedure:
Presenting an article means
- presenting a summary of the article.The summary should indicate and explicate the important parts of the article, the problems with the theory espoused or system explained, and the relevance for previous research discussed in class;
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(a) presenting an existing conversational/dialogue interactive system that deals with the discourse phenomenon under discussion. A list of systems may be found on the [resources] page. The presentation should include a short description of the system architecture and a discussion of how well or poorly the particular discourse phenomenon in question is treated, and how it might be extended.
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(b) preparing your own design sketch of a computational system or application that depends on or exemplifies the phenomenon treated in that lecture's readings, and leading a discussion in class on that computational system. A design sketch should present a system of the student's own invention that incorporates the phenomenon under discussion into its functioning. The system can be as fantastical as you desire (and may incorporate *some* elements that are impossible given the state of research today), but the part of the system that uses the class phenomenon should be down-to-earth, possible, and clear. The goal of this exercise is to help the class understand the utility of discourse phenomena for interactive systems, and to understand in a concrete way how to incorporate them into system design.
Specific references and resources:
Note: All issues of speech communication are available on-line through the University of Chicago on-line services.
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Finite-state Systems: General
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Cole, R.A......et al. (1997) Experiments with a spoken dialogue system for taking the U.S. census.
Speech Communication , 23, 3, 243-260. -
McTear, M. (1998) Modelling spoken dialogues with state transition diagrams: experiences with the CSLU toolkit.
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Spoken Language Processing , Dec. 1998. Sydney, Australia. 1223-1226. - Demos: www.speechworks.com - air travel, stocks; www.nuance.com - air travel
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Cole, R.A......et al. (1997) Experiments with a spoken dialogue system for taking the U.S. census.
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Finite-state Systems: Automatic induction
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M.Woszczyna and A.Waibel. (1994) INFERRING LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE.
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference of Spoken Language Processing . -
Kita, K., Fukui, Y., Nagata, M., and Morimoto, T.(1996)Automatic Acquisition of Probabilistic Dialogue Models.
Proceedings of 1996 International Symposium on Spoken Dialog p. 109-112. On door of Ry 162C
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M.Woszczyna and A.Waibel. (1994) INFERRING LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE.
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Frame-based Systems
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Aust, H., Gerder, M., Seide, F., and Steinbiss, V. (1995) The Philips automatic train timetable information system.
Speech Communication 17,249-262. -
Seneff, S., Goddeau, D., Pao, C., and Polifroni, J.(1996) Multimodal discourse modelling in a multi-user, multi-domain environment.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference of Spoken Language Processing - WHEELS: a conversational system in the automobile classifieds domain.
- Demos: Any of the MIT lab demos: www.lcs.sls.mit.edu
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Aust, H., Gerder, M., Seide, F., and Steinbiss, V. (1995) The Philips automatic train timetable information system.
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Dialogue management by theorem proving
- Smith, R. (1992) Integration of Domain Problem Solving with Natural Language Dialog: The Missing Axiom Theory: Proceedings of Applications of AI X: Knowledge-Based Systems, 1992, pages 270-278.
- Smith, R. and S. Gordon. (1996) Pragmatic Issues in Handling Miscommunication: Observations of a Spoken Natural Language Dialog System : Proceedings of the AAAI '96 Workshop on Detecting, Repairing, and Preventing Human-Machine Miscommunication, pages 21-28.
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Dialogue as Planning: TRAINS
- George Ferguson, James Allen, and Brad Miller, "TRAINS-95: Towards a Mixed-Initi ative Planning Assistant," in Proceedings of the Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence Planning Systems (AIPS-96), Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-31 May 1996, pp. 70-77.
- George M. Ferguson, James F. Allen, Brad W. Miller and Eric K. Ringger, Design and Implementation of the TRAINS-96 System: A Prototype Mixed-Initiative Planning Assistant, TRAIN S Technical Note 96-5, Computer Science Dept., University of Rochester, October 1996.
- Demos: www.cs.rochester.edu (trains or trips)
- Dialogue management by rational agency: ARTIMIS