Speech interfaces to conversational systems have been a focus in academia and industry
for over a decade due to its applicability as a natural interface. Speech recognition and …

People are able to interact with domain-specific intelligent assistants (IAs) and get help with
tasks. But sometimes user goals are complex and may require interactions with multiple …

Abstract Today's Arabic Handwriting recognition systems are able to recognize arbitrary
words over a large but finite vocabulary. Systems operating with a fixed vocabulary are …

The diachronic nature of broadcast news data leads to the problem of out-of-vocabulary
(OOV) words in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) systems. Analysis …

Spoken language based intelligent assistants (IAs) have been developed for a number of
domains but their functionality has mostly been confined to the scope of a given app. One …

People usually interact with intelligent agents (IAs) when they have certain goals to be
accomplished. Sometimes these goals are complex and may require interacting with …

We have been addressing the problem of acquiring attributes of unknown terms through
dialogues and previously proposed an approach using the implicit confirmation process. It is …

For the acquisition of knowledge through dialogues, it is crucial for systems to ask questions
that do not diminish the user's willingness to talk, ie, that do not degrade the user's …

This paper discusses the adaptation of speech recognition vocabularies for automatic
speech transcription. The context is the transcription of YouTube videos in French, English …

Spoken dialog systems have been widely used, such as the voice applications or agents in
smart phone or smart car environments. However, speech systems are built using the …