What would you say if your refrigerator told you, " You're having some friends round for hot chocolate later. Maybe you should order two cartons of milk " ? Of course, in Spoken Dialogue Technology, Michael McTear will not give an answer to the question of whether talking to domestic appliances makes sense, but he indicates that even a normal household, for instance, may offer a wide field of a...

Context is of crucial importance to language understanding in general and plays a central role in spoken language dialogue systems design. Context, however, is hard to define. In this paper context is viewed as denoting a collection of aspects or contextual elements each of which may be defined and analysed with respect to its specific contribution to dialogue understanding. Massive exploitatio...

To provide a high level of usability, spoken dialogue systems must generate cooperative responses for a wide variety of users and situations. We introduce a dialogue planning scheme incorporating user and situation models making such dialogue adaptation possible. Manually developing a set of dialogue rules to account for all possible model combinations, would be very difficult and obstruct syst...

In recent years reinforcement-learning-based approaches have been widely used for management policy optimization in spoken dialogue systems (SDS). A dialogue management policy is a mapping from dialogue states to system actions, i.e. given the state of the dialogue the dialogue policy determines the next action to be performed by the dialogue manager. So-far policy optimization primarily focuse...

This paper argues for the use of more natural and flexible clarification questions in spoken dialogue systems. Several forms and aspects of clarification questions are discussed and exemplified by examples from human-human dialogue corpora. We show how clarification questions fit into the broader context of miscommunication and describe the types of information spoken dialogue systems need in o...

This paper presents a consolidated set of 24 principles of cooperative spoken human-machine dialogue which are based on the development and controlled user testing of the dialogue component of the Danish dialogue system as well as on comparison with human-human dialogue theory. Potentially, the principles could be used as effective and systematic dialogue development and evaluation tools both d...

i am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the persian language journals with specific english-language ones. our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, petroleum geology, engineering geo...

A central challenge for tutorial dialogue systems is selecting an appropriate move given the dialogue context. Corpus-based approaches to creating tutorial dialogue management models may facilitate more flexible and rapid development of tutorial dialogue systems and may increase the effectiveness of these systems by allowing data-driven adaptation to learning contexts and to individual learners...

This paper presents an approach to adaptive dialogue planning in the framework of an intelligent information retrieval system (MIRACLE), which provides semantic access to multimedia information via a WWW interface. The system uses abduction to infer users, interests and dialogue goals: ambiguous user queries are interpreted with respect to the semantic domain model and unexpected dialogue acts ...