... mirror a human-human dialog leading to more natural dialogs with themachine.4.7 Integration into the ontologyThe foundational ontology (Cimiano et al., 2004)integrated into the dialog system Smartweb ... the ontology learning task.Figure 2: The On2L Life CycleThe sequential steps shown in Figure 2 are de-scribed in more detail in the following paragraphsstarting with the processing of the user’s ... fromtechnical texts using machine learning: The systemasium. In EKAW ’99: Proceedings of the 11th Eu-ropean Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Mod-eling and Management, London, UK. Springer-Verlag.Florian...
... variablefor each domain entity.736.2 Learning The REG module was trained inlearning mode us-ing the above reward function using the SHAR-SHA reinforcement learning algorithm (with lin-ear function ... (Learned HS) during training. It can beseen in the figure 2 that towards the end the curveplateaus signifying that learning has converged.Figure 2: Learning curves - Training7 Evaluation In this section, ... Situated Spoken Dialogue Task. In Proc.ENLG’09.S. Janarthanam and O. Lemon. 2009c. Learning Lexi-cal Alignment Policies for Generating Referring Ex-pressions for Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proc.ENLG’09.O....
... s ta lkabout NOW: Identifying cue phrases intonationally. In Proc. 25th ACL, pages 163–171.Minqing Hu and Bing Liu. 2005. Mining and summarizingcustomer reviews. In Proc. KDD, pages 168–177.Alistair ... on which Minipar was trained, the outputof Minipar can be inaccurate, leading to failure in conversion. We check whether conversion is suc-cessful in the filtering stage.2.4 FilteringThe goal ... mappingsfor multi-relation mappings, with those contain-ing a food or service relation occurring more fre-quently as in the single scalar-valued relation map-pings. We found only 21 combinations...
... Krogh, E. Levin and R. Pieraccini. 2007. Technical Support Dialog Systems: Issues, Problems, and Solu-tions. In Proc. of Workshop on Bridging the Gap: Academic and Industrial Research inDialog ... B. Clark and S. Peters. 2006. Responding to Student Uncertainty in Spoken Tutorial Dialogue Systems. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 16. C. Rich and C. L. Sidner. ... result, the instruction did not match the initial essay quality. Nonetheless, in the open-question interviews, many users indicated using the NM as a reference while updating their essay. In addition...
... forcooperative response generation in information dialogues. In AAAI/IAAI 1999 pp. 148–155.M. Steedman 2000. Information structure and the syntax-phonology interface. In Linguistic Inquiry, 31(4): 649–689.A. ... dialog systemusing simulation. In Proc. of ACL ’04.V. Demberg. 2005. Information presentation inspoken di-alogue systems. Master’s thesis, School of Informatics,University of Edinburgh.J.D. ... of interest for any rational user. All dominantoptions represent some tradeoff, but depending onthe user’s interest, some of them are more interest-ing tradeoffs than others.Pruning dominated...
... evaluat-ing spoken dialogue agents. In Proceedings of the ACL, 271–280 M. Walker and R. Passonneau. 2001. DATE: a dia-logue act tagging scheme for evaluation of spoken dialogue systems. In ... core technology of the spoken dia-logue systems, since the more accurate information obtained by the machine (Higashinaka et al., 2004), the more possibility to finish the dialogue task. Practical ... computa-tion of meaning. World Scientific Publishing Co Inc. J. Gao, and H. Suzuki. 2003. Unsupervised learning of dependency structure for language modeling. In Proceedings of ACL 2003,...
... used by a dialogue manager to decide appro-priate system reactions. The approach is novel in combining machine learning with n-best processingfor spoken dialogue systems using the InformationState ... tuning.Future work points in two directions: first, inte-grating our methodology into working ISU-baseddialogue systems and determining whether or notthey improve in terms of standard dialogue ... understand-ing. In Proceedings of ACL-93.Malte Gabsdil. 2003. Classifying Recognition Re-sults for Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Proceed-ings of the Student Research Workshop at ACL-03.Perry R. Hinton....
... developed for bilingual dialogue in a voice-to-voice machine translation application. In this application, the Dialogue Manager is available for meta- dialogues with either user (as in Could you ... Tracker into the dialogue history. 2 An Architecture for Spoken Dialogue Systems Having introduced our three discourse compo- nents, we now present our overall architecture. It is laid out in ... Actors. In "Automated Spoken Dialogue Systems& quot;, S. Lu- perFoy, ed. MIT Press (forthcoming). LuperFoy. S (1992) The Representation of Multi- modal User-Interface Dialogues Using Discourse...
... this way, we were able tocreate synthetic training sets of varying sizes, as wellas a test set of 1000 dialogs. Each generated dialog d in each training/test set consisted of a sequence ofvalues ... model was esti-mated by transcribing 50 randomly chosen dialogsfrom the training set in Section 4.2 and calculat-ing the frequency with which the ASR engine rec-ognized˜Atsuch that˜At= ... distributions in our model are multinomials. Hence θ is a vec-tor that parameterizes the user model according toPr(At= a | St= s, Ut= u; θ) = θasu.The problem we are interested in is estimating...
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... adapts the pipeline architecture presented in section 2.1 by replacing the document planner with the dialog manager. This makes it more suitable for use indialog systems, since the dialog manager ... sentences convey the meaning in a concise yet clear manner. Secondly we can define the portability requirement to include both domain and language independence. Domain-independence suggests ... getting frame are: acquire, gain, get, obtain, secure. For each entry, WordNet is consulted as a first pruning mechanism. This results in the following: • Acquire: get • Gain: acquire, win...