Title | Can I finish? Learning when to respond to incremental interpretation results in interactive dialogue |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | DeVault, D., K. Sagae, and D. R. Traum |
Conference Name | 10th Annual SIGDIAL meeting on Discourse and Dialogue |
Date Published | September 2009 |
Conference Location | London, UK |
Abstract | We investigate novel approaches to responsive overlap behaviors in dialogue systems, opening possibilities for systems to interrupt, acknowledge or complete a user’s utterance while it is still in progress. Our specific contributions are a method for determining when a system has reached a point of maximal understanding of an ongoing user utterance, and a prototype implementation that shows how systems can use this ability to strategically initiate system completions of user utterances. More broadly, this framework facilitates the implementation of a range of overlap behaviors that are common in human dialogue, but have been largely absent in dialogue systems. |
URL | http://people.ict.usc.edu/~traum/Papers/dst_sigdial09_final.pdf |