Rapidly Customizable Spoken Dialogue Systems
Abstract
Building a robust spoken dialogue system for a new application, task, or domain currently requires considerable effort, including substantial efforts in data collection, building language models, grammar/parser development, building a custom dialogue manager, and developing the connection to the system's "back-end" systems (e.g., a database query or knowledge based system). This project developed key parts of a technology base upon which spoken dialogue systems can be rapidly constructed for new domains. Our approach involves building generic components (i.e., ones that apply in any practical domain) for all stages of spoken dialogue understanding, and developing techniques for rapidly customizing the generic components to new domains.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 28, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA493272
Entities
People
- James F. Allen
Organizations
- Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition