Special Topic: Incremental speech processing
This special topic focuses on how dialogue systems can be made to process and respond to speech in real-time using incremental processing techniques.
Required Readings
- A General, Abstract Model of Incremental Dialogue Processing Schlangen, David and Skantze, Gabriel, Proc. of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL, 2009.
- Can I finish? Learning when to respond to incremental interpretation results in interactive dialogue David DeVault, Kenji Sagae, and David Traum, in The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2009), London, UK
Other Readings
- Incremental Dialogue Processing in a Micro-Domain Gabriel Skantze and David Schlangen, Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2009.
- Gregory Aist, James Allen, Ellen Campana, Carlos Gomez Gallo, Scott Stoness, Mary Swift and Michael Tanenhaus. Incremental understanding in human-computer dialogue and experimental evidence for advantages over nonincremental methods The 2007 Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DECALOG 2007)
- Towards Incremental Speech Generation in Dialogue Systems , Skantze, Gabriel and Hjalmarsson, Anna, Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference, September, 2010 best paper award
- Comparing local and sequential models for statistical incremental natural language understanding Silvan Heintze, Timo Baumann, and David Schlangen. . In Proceedings of the SIGdial 2010 Conference, pages 9-16, Tokyo, Japan, September 2010.
- Stability and Accuracy in Incremental Speech Recognition Ethan Selfridge, Iker Arizmendi, Peter A. Heeman, Jason Williams, In SigDial 2011