Dialogue Processing in Spoken Language Systems

Overview.- User errors in spoken human-machine dialogue.- Towards a dialogue taxonomy.- Using an interpretation system — Some observations in hidden operator simulations of ‘VERBMOBIL’.- Classification of public transport information dialogues using an information based coding scheme.- Speech production in human-machine dialogue: A natural language generation perspective.- Input segmentation of spontaneous speech in JANUS: A speech-to-speech translation system.- “Pause units” and analysis of spontaneous Japanese dialogues: Preliminary studies.- Syntactic procedures for the detection of self-repairs in German dialogues.- Utterance units in spoken dialogue.- Development principles for dialog-based interfaces.- Designing a portable spoken dialogue system.- Minimizing cumulative error in discourse context.- Automatic evaluation environment for Spoken Dialogue Systems.- End-to-end evaluation in JANUS: A speech-to-speech translation system.- A task-based evaluation of the TRAINS-95 dialogue system.