... ofthe in-car system. 121 An ISUDialogueSystemExhibitingReinforcementLearning of Dialogue Policies: Generic Slot-filling in the TALK In-car System Oliver Lemon, Kallirroi Georgila, and James ... StateUpdate” (ISU) dialoguesystem to exhibit rein-forcement learning of dialogue strategies, andalso has a fragmentary clarification feature.This paper describes the main components andfunctionality ... order to be able to collect datafor ReinforcementLearning (RL) approaches to mul-timodal dialogue management, and also to test and fur-ther develop learnt dialogue strategies in a realistic...
... driver utterances and 4382passenger utterances are transcribed. An annota-tion scheme was designed to enable analysis ofutterances with respect to topic change for eachdomain.Domain and topic ... resumption strategies in an in-vehicle dialogue system. 1 IntroductionMaking it useful and enjoyable to use a dialogue system is always important. The dialogue shouldbe easy and intuitive, otherwise ... when implementing an in-vehicle dialogue system. To make the dialogue natural and easy to under-stand the dialogue manager should consider whichdomain it will resume to and the number of turnsbetween...
... Sciences and Technology 24 (2008) 110-121 110 An integrated approach for an academic advising system in adaptive credit-based learning environment Nguyen Thanh Binh*, Hoang Thi Anh Duong, Tran ... understanding the regulations and requirements of a chosen program, and selecting the most effective and efficient path toward graduation [5]. Usually, Academic advising is an important and ... academic support system: state university system of florida, Fall term, 2004. [7] T.Y. Tang, G. McCalla. “Smart Recommendation for an Evolving E -Learning System: Architecture and Experiment”,...
... supplied by an MT system require manual post-editing. This serial process pre-vents the MT system from integrating the knowledgeof the human translator. An alternative way to take advantage of ... state-of-the-artSMT system is employed in the following way. Fora given source sentence, the SMT system automati-cally generates an initial translation. A human trans-lator checks this translation from ... Foster, P. Langlais, and G. Lapalme. 2002. Transtype:text prediction for translators. In Proc. HLT, pages372–374.P. Isabelle and K. Church. 1997. Special issue onnew tools for human translators....
... and ikebana ('flower arranging'). The word ichibana (El) does not exist in Japanese. His explanation 'number one' was correctly translated (not shown here) as ichiban. ... machine translation system imple- mented on a workstation (Amano 1986, Amano et a/. 1987). The system, which is interactive and designed for use by a translator, normally runs in an interactive ... hundred thousand entries for both English and Japanese. SYSTEM PERFORMANCE Once the connection has been established, con- versation proceeds as in UNIX's talk. An impor- tant feature...
... Depending on itsboundary, a system can be an economic entity, an inventory system, or a business organization.Knowledge management is an element of theorganizational management system (Warfield,1989). ... enterprise perfor-mance and competitive advantage (Ahn andChang, 2004; Chuang, 2004; Joshi and Sharma,2004; Tzokas and Saren, 2004; Badii and Sharif,2003; Cavusgil et al., 2003; Choi and Lee, 2002).For ... structure of the system, and the function ofthe system. Main Factors Influence Knowledge ManagementKnowledge management system is a system toeffectively manage knowledge within an enter-prise....
... language under-standing (SLU) module converts Wtto an abstractrepresentation of the user’s dialogue act (DA). The dialogue management (DM) module determines theuser’s dialogue act A∗tand ... 88:1279–1296.N. Fraser and G. N. Gilbert. 1991. Simulating speechsystems. Computer Speech and Language, 5(1):81–99.C. Hori, K. Ohtake, T. Misu, H. Kashioka, and S. Naka-mura. 2009a. Recent advances in ... extracted and used to model the relation-ship between the dialogue acts and the deriva-tion rules. The constructed model is then usedto generate a semantic score for dialogue actdetection given an...
... 2005; Soricut and Brill, 2006), ashave the human-powered question sites such as An- swers.com, Yahoo Answers and Google Answers,where individuals can post questions and receive an- swers from ... information can be used topost-process the data, and to develop an auto-matic approval system for further data collec-tion projects conducted in a similar manner.1 IntroductionAutomatic question answering ... com-pare the correct answers to automatic answersproduced by a system. For this purpose wepresent a Wikipedia-based corpus of Why-questions and corresponding answers and arti-cles. The corpus...
... input, and thus in the same output: arequest to show and describe the given design.The COMIC DAM (Catizone et al., 2003) isa general-purpose dialogue manager which canhandle different dialogue ... al., 2002). An experimental study (Foster andWhite, 2005) has shown that this adaptation is per-ceptible to users of COMIC.2 Dialogue ManagementThe task of the Dialogue and Action Manager(DAM) ... Chang, Hannes Vilhj´almsson,and Hao Yan. 1999. Embodiment in conversationalinterfaces: Rea. In Proceedings of CHI99.Roberta Catizone, Andrea Setzer, and Yorick Wilks.2003. Multimodal dialogue...
... stored in the vocabulary learning repository. Once the dialogue initiation has been concluded the dialogue management system gains back the control of the dialogue and initializes the current ... computed and used along with the utterance-level score for generating a final rank of candidate utterances. A log-linear combination scheme is used for combining the two scores. The dialogue management ... speakers, utterances and context. The speaker and utterance elements contain information about the characters who speak and what they said at each dialogue turn. On the other hand, context elements...
... English. Longman, London.Srinivasan Janarthanam and Oliver Lemon. 2010. Learn-ing to adapt to unknown users: referring expressiongeneration in spoken dialogue systems. In Proc. of theAnnual Meeting ... Sutton and Andrew G Barto. 1998. Reinforce-ment Learning: An Introduction. MIT Press, Cam-bridge, MA, USA.Menno van Zaanen. 2000. Bootstrapping syntax andrecursion using alginment-based learning. ... Machine Learning (ICML), pages 1063–1070, SanFrancisco, CA, USA.Marilyn A. Walker, Diane J. Litman, Candace A. Kamm,and Alicia Abella. 1997. PARADISE: A frameworkfor evaluating spoken dialogue...
... fine-grained and hierarchically organized KS's. Also, our system can be evaluated and tuned at a low level because each KS is independent of discourse phenom- ena and can be turned off and on ... are applied for all anaphor. 160 A LANGUAGE-INDEPENDENT ANAPHORA RES()LUTION SYSTEM FOR UNDERSTANDING MULTILINGUAL TEXTS Chinatsu Aone and Douglas McKee Systems Research and Applications (SRA) ... gender of a pronoun imposes a semantic gender restriction on its antecedent. An English pronoun "he", for instance, can never refer to an NP whose semantic gender is female like "Ms....
... cor-rect answers, either in human-human or human-computer dialogue, exhibit higher learning gains,and this has been established for different sys-tems and tutoring domains (Litman et al., ... Netherlands. IOSPress.Narendra K. Gupta, G¨okhan T¨ur, Dilek Hakkani-T¨ur,Srinivas Bangalore, Giuseppe Riccardi, and MazinGilbert. 2006. The AT&T spoken language un-derstanding system. ... IEEE Transactions on Audio,Speech & Language Processing, 14(1):213–222.Pamela W. Jordan, Maxim Makatchev, and UmaraniPappuswamy. 2006. Understanding complex nat-ural language explanations...
... spoken dialogue system (SDS) is to determine the user’s goal (e.g.plan suitable meeting times or find a good Indianrestaurant nearby) under uncertainty, and therebyto compute the optimal next system ... restaurant.S: You’re looking for budget, city centre, Thairestaurants. —U: Or an expensive French restaurant anywhere.S: You’re looking for non-budget French restaurants.What —U: And cheap, ... requirements associated witheach, i.e. Thai restaurants should be in the centreand cheap, while any French restaurants should beexpensive1and can be located anywhere. To ourknowledge such a combination...