With the technical advances and market growth in the field, the issues of evaluation and
usability of spoken language dialogue systems, unimodal as well as multimodal, are as …

We present an approach to mixed initiative dialogue in acoustic user interfaces to
databases. First, we discuss how we distinguish between initiative and control in mixed …

This paper describes the integration of the Dasa Dialogue Manager (DDM) into commercial
IVR speech computer platforms. It is argued that system integration is facilitated if natural …

The present paper presents a generic environment for intelligent multi media applications,
denoted “The Intellimedia Work-Bench”. The aim of the workbench is to facilitate …

This paper describes a number of freely available tools for implementing and running
spoken language understanding systems. Unlike other free tools (eg the CSLU toolkit), the …

Dialogue model development is a major part of spoken language dialogue systems
development. The dialogue model development process is a series of iterative interactions …

The present paper describes the linguistic components of a platform for building spoken
language dialogue systems. The platform is being designed and implemented within the EU …

In this paper discuss three basic problems of current spoken dialog systems:(1) the problem
of understanding speech,(2) the additional problems imposed by spontaneous speech, and …

This paper describes a suite of NLP-modules designed and implemented within two very
different spoken language projects:(i) REWARD (Real World Applications of Robust …

From a general HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) point of view, spoken dialogue systems
(SDSs) are a kind of speech-based interfaces. Clearly, speech may be used for interface …