Task and Domain Specific Modelling in the Carnegie Mellon Communicator System

Abstract

The Carnegie Mellon Communicator is a telephone-based dialog system that supports planning in a travel domain. The implementation of such a system requires two complimentary components, an architecture capable of managing interaction and the task, as well as a knowledge base that captures the speech, language and task characteristics specific to the domain. Given a suitable architecture, the principal effort in development is taken up in the acquisition and processing of a domain knowledge base. This paper describes a variety of techniques we have applied to modeling in acoustic, language, task, generation and synthesis components of the system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA461244

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  • Alan W. Black
  • Alexander I. Rudnicky
  • Alice Oh
  • Ananlada Chotomongcol
  • Christina Bennett
  • Kevin Lenzo
  • Rita Singh

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  • Carnegie Mellon University

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