The rise of the conversational interface: A new kid on the block?

MF McTear - Future and Emerging Trends in Language Technology …, 2017 - Springer
The conversational interface has become a hot topic in the past year or so, providing the
primary means of interaction with chatbots, messaging apps, and virtual personal assistants …

[PDF][PDF] Prosody-based automatic detection of annoyance and frustration in human-computer dialog.

J Ang, R Dhillon, A Krupski, E Shriberg, A Stolcke - INTERSPEECH, 2002 - Citeseer
We investigate the use of prosody for the detection of frustration and annoyance in natural
human-computer dialog. In addition to prosodic features, we examine the contribution of …

[BOG][B] Automatic classification of emotion-related user states in spontaneous children's speech

S Steidl - 2009 - informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Over the last 30 years, building dialog systems for spontaneous speech has been one of the
main focuses of the Speech Processing and Understanding Group of the Chair of Pattern …

Disentangling the properties of human evaluation methods: A classification system to support comparability, meta-evaluation and reproducibility testing

A Belz, S Mille, DM Howcroft - 2020 - doras.dcu.ie
Current standards for designing and reporting human evaluations in NLP mean it is
generally unclear which evaluations are comparable and can be expected to yield similar …

[BOG][B] Spoken dialogue systems

K Jokinen, M McTear - 2009 - books.google.com
Considerable progress has been made in recent years in the development of dialogue
systems that support robust and efficient human-machine interaction using spoken …

[PDF][PDF] Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of darpa communicator spoken dialogue systems

M Walker, RJ Passonneau… - Proceedings of the 39th …, 2001 - aclanthology.org
This paper describes the application of the PARADISE evaluation framework to the corpus of
662 human-computer dialogues collected in the June 2000 Darpa Communicator data …

Example-based dialog modeling for practical multi-domain dialog system

C Lee, S Jung, S Kim, GG Lee - Speech Communication, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a generic dialog modeling framework for a multi-domain dialog system
to simultaneously manage goal-oriented and chat dialogs for both information access and …