Readings for Tues, April 25:
| Langkilde, Walker, Wright, Gorin, and Litman. Automatic prediction of problematic human-computer dialogues in 'How May I Help You?'. In Proceedings of ASRU '99. |
| Diane J. Litman, Marilyn A. Walker, and Michael S. Kearns. Automatic Detection of Poor Speech Recognition at the Dialogue Level. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL'99), pp. 309-316, College Park, MD, June 1999. |
For our next meeting (Tues April 18), we'll head over to the AI Seminar (WeH 5409, 3:30 p.m.) by Dr. Michael Kearns of AT&T Labs, and then we'll have a meeting with him in NSH 4513 after the talk (around 4:30 p.m.).
For the title & abstract of his talk, see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tai/aiseminar.html.
Recommended readings:
| S. Singh, M. Kearns, D. Litman, and M. Walker. Empirical Evaluation of a Reinforcement Learning Spoken Dialogue System. To appear, AAAI 2000. |
| D. Litman, M. Kearns, S. Singh, and M. Walker. Automatic Optimization of Dialogue Management. To appear, COLING 2000. |
Readings for Tues March 21:
| Harald Aust, Olaf Schroeder. An Overview
of the Philips Dialog System
http://www.itl.nist.gov/iaui/894.01/proc/darpa98/html/ww20/ww20.htm |
| A Ferrieux and M D Sadek. An Efficient Data-Driven Model for Cooperative Spoken Dialogue. In Proceedings of ICSLP94. |
| K. A. Papineni, S. Roukos, R. T. Ward. Free-flow Dialog Management Using Forms. In Proceedings of Eurospeech99. |
| Susan McRoy and Syed Ali. A Practical Declarative Theory of Dialog. In the Working Notes of the AAAI Workshop on Mixed-Initiative Intelligence, July 1999. |
Readings for Tues Feb 22:
| Souvignier, Kellner, Rueber, and Schramm. The Thoughtful Elephant: Strategies for Spoken Dialog Systems. In IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 1. January 2000. |
| Zue, Seneff, Glass, Polifroni, Pao, Hazen, and Hetherington. Jupiter: a Telephone-based Conversational Interface for Weather Information. In IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, vol. 8, no. 1. January 2000. |
Unfortunately these are not available on-line. If you would like to get a copy, please let me know.