In this paper we describe our recent and future research on multimodal interaction in an
Ambient Assisted Living Lab. Our work combines two interaction modes, speech and …

This article addresses the problem of scalable optimization for spatially-aware dialogue
systems. These kinds of systems must perceive, reason, and act about the spatial …

We present a dialogue system that automatically generates indoor route instructions in
German when asked about locations, using text-based natural language input and output …

The following paper presents the enhancement of indoor route instructions with descriptive
generation strategies. We consider the latter to be highly important for the quality and …

Current advances in the development of mobile and smart devices have generated a
growing demand for natural human-machine interaction and favored the intelligent assistant …

Ontologies have been proposed and studied in the last couple of decades as a way to
capture and share people's knowledge about the world in a way that is processable by …

Dialogue state tracking requires the population and maintenance of a multi-slot frame
representation of the dialogue state. Frequently, dialogue state tracking systems assume …

Technology and technological devices have become habitual and omnipresent. Humans
need to learn tocommunicate with all kind of devices. Until recently humans needed to learn …

The uncertainties of language and the complexity of dialogue contexts make accurate
dialogue state tracking one of the more challenging aspects of dialogue processing. To …

Human-machine conversational agents have developed at a rapid pace in recent years,
bolstered through the application of advanced technologies such as deep learning. Today …