| Date |
Topic |
Reading
material |
Other
stuff |
| Past dialogs |
| FALL 2007 |
| 11-09-07 |
Interface challenges in HealthLine: Presenting large amounts of information over the phone to low literate users (Jahanzeb) |
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| 10-12-07 |
Generating and Evaluating User-Tailored Responses (Matt) |
1. Generation and Evaluation of User Tailored Responses in
Multimodal Dialogue, M. Walker, S. Whittaker, A. Stent, P. Maloor, J. Moore, M. Johnston, G. Vasireddy, Cognitive Science, 28: 811-840, 2004.
|
[slides] |
| 10-05-07 |
Recent papers from ACL, SIGDIAL, Interspeech, ... (Antoine) |
1. Analyzing Temporal Transition of Real User's Behaviors in a Spoken Dialogue System, K. Komatani, T. Kawahara, and H.G. Okuno, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
2. Machine Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems, O. Lemon and O. Pietquin, Interspeech 2007, Antwerp, Belgium
|
[slides] |
| SUMMER/FALL
2006 |
| 11-10-06 |
Speech understanding experiments (Sergio) |
|
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| 11-10-06 |
Implicit supervision in spoken dialog systems (Dan) |
|
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| 11-03-06 |
Implicit supervision in the meeting domain (Bano) |
|
|
| 10-27-06 |
Dialog and Q&A (Antoine/Svetlana?) |
|
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| 10-20-06 |
Job talk prep (Stef) |
|
|
| 10-13-06 |
Dialog structure tagging experiment results (Moss) |
|
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| 10-06-06 |
Review of Interspeech papers (everyone) |
|
|
| 09-29-06 |
Touch-base meeting for the new semester |
|
|
| 07-14-06 |
The Reliability of MDP-generated policies: How much data is enough? (Joel, Dan) |
|
[slides] |
| 06-16-06 |
Speech Understanding in Dialogue Systems (Sergio Grau Puerto) |
|
[slides] |
| SPRING
2006 |
| 05-19-06 |
Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis (Mihai Rotaru) |
1. Exploiting Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Performance Analysis, Mihai Rotaru and Diane J. Litman (2006) “”. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Sydney, Australia (to appear in July).
|
|
| 05-12-06 |
Dialogue System Construction Using the Ravenclaw Framework (Arthur Chan) |
|
[slides] |
| 04-14-06 |
English-Chinese language learning system (Chih-yu) |
|
[slides] |
| 03-17-06 |
Belief Updating (Dan - final results) |
1. A K-hypotheses + Other Belief Updating Model, D. Bohus and A. Rudnicky, AAAI Workshop on Statistical and Empirical Methods in Spoken Dialog Systems
|
[slides] |
| 03-10-06 |
TAMIL Market - An Overview (Udhay) |
1. Speech Recognition for Illiterate Access to Information and Technology
|
|
| 03-08-06 |
Student Simulation and Evaluation (Hua Ai) |
|
[slides] |
| 02-24-06 |
A Dialogue System for Radio Training (Antonio Roque, visiting from USC) |
|
|
| 02-17-06 |
Cohesion and learning in a tutorial spoken dialog system (Art) |
|
[slides] |
| 02-10-06 |
Shaping in Speech Graffiti: results from the initial user study (Stefanie) |
|
[slides] |
| 01-27-06 |
Evaluation of Dialog Structure Annotation (Moss) |
1. Assessing agreement on classification tasks the kappa statistic, J. Carletta, Computational Linguistics, vol. 22, pp. 249-254, 1996.
2. The reliability of a dialogue structure coding scheme, J. Carletta, S. Isard, G. Doherty-Sneddon, A. Isard, J. C. Kowtko, and A. H. Anderson, Computational Linguistics, vol. 23, pp. 13-31, 1997.
3. Empirical evaluation of human performance and agreement in parsing discourse constituents in spoken dialogue, G. Flammia and V. Zue, in the Proceedings of Eurospeech 1995. Madrid, Spain, 1995.
4. Experiments in constructing a corpus of discourse trees, D. Marcu, E. Amorrortu, and M. Romera, in the Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Standards and Tools for Discourse Tagging, College Park, MD, 1999.
|
[slides] |
| FALL
2005 |
| 11-25-05 |
From Turn-Driven to Event-Driven Dialog Management (Antoine) |
|
|
| 11-11-05 |
Show me what you meant: use and effects of mode-prompts (Thomas) |
|
|
| 10-28-05 |
Continuous understanding in spoken dialog systems (Greg) |
|
|
| 10-07-05 |
Challenges for Dialog in Human-Robot Interaction (Hartwig Holzapfel) |
|
[slides]
|
| SUMMER
2005 |
| 08-26-05 |
Effects of User Expertise on Perceptions of a Directive Robot: The Case for Adaptive Dialog (Cristen Torrey) |
|
[slides]
|
| 08-19-05 |
User simulation and modelling (Jost Schatzmann) |
1.Quantitative Evaluation of User Simulation Techniques for Spoken Dialogue Systems, Schatzmann, J., Georgila, K., and Young, S., 2005
2.Effects of the User Model on Simulation-based Learning of Dialogue Strategies, Schatzmann, J., Stuttle, M., Weilhammer, K. and Young, S., 2005 |
[slides]
|
| 08-12-05 |
TALK Project and dialog work at Cambridge (Matt Stuttle) |
|
[slides]
|
| 08-06-05 |
Brainstorming for Interspeech system |
|
|
| 07-29-05 |
Error Handling in HIGGINS/GALATEA - work by Gabriel Skantze et al (Dan Bohus) |
1.Higgins - a spoken dialogue system for investigating error handling techniques, Edlund, J., Skantze, G., and Carlson, R., 2004
2.GALATEA: A Discourse Modeller Supporting Concept-level Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems, Skantze, G., 2005
3.The Effects of Prosodic Features on the Interpretation of Clarification Ellipses, Edlund, J., House, D., and Skantze, G., 2005 |
[slides]
|
| 06-24-05 |
Verena Rieser |
Learning multi-modal clarification strategies |
[slides]
|
| 06-17-05 |
Belief updating in spoken dialog systems (Dan) |
This is work in progress on how to update confidence scores in light of user responses to explicit and implicit confirmations |
[slides] |
| 06-03-05 |
Dialogue management using POMDPs (Jason) |
1.Factored Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for Dialogue Management, Williams, J., Poupart, P. and Young, S. 2005. |
[slides] |
| SPRING
2005 |
| 05-13-05 |
Let’s Go Public! Taking a Spoken Dialog System into the RealWorld
|
Interspeech2005 paper |
|
| 05-06-05 |
Mapping utterances onto domain actions in non-grammatical ways (Thomas) |
|
|
| 04-01-05 |
Wizard-of-Oz studies for human-robot interaction (Thomas) |
|
Room WeH4623
|
| 03-18-05 |
"Learning in the Wild" in the Meeting Room Scenario (Bano) |
|
[slides] |
| 03-11-05 |
Effect of tutorial on user expertise (Stefanie) |
1.From Novice to Expert: The Effect of Tutorials on User Expertise with Spoken Dialogue Systems, Kamm, C.A., Litman, D.J. and Walker, M.A. 1998.
2.Tutor Design for Speech-Based Interfaces, Hakulinen, J., Turunen, M., Salonen, E.-P., and Rih, K.-J. 2004.
|
|
| 03-04-05 |
Dialogue coding schemes for tutorial systems (Chih-Yu) |
|
[slides] |
| 02-25-05 |
Back channel communication (Antoine) |
1.Talking Back: "Small" Interactional Response Tokens in Everyday Conversation, McCarthy (2003)
2.An Analysis of Turn-Taking and Backchannels Based on Prosodic and Syntactic Features in Japanese Map Task Dialogs, Koiso et al (1998)
3.Prosodic Featurs Which Cue Back-Channel Responses in English and Japanese, Ward and Tsukahara (2000)
4.Effects of Native Language and Sex on Back-Channel Behavior, Feke (2003)
5.Learning Decision Trees to Determine Turn-Taking by Spoken Dialogue Systems, Sato et al (2002)
6.Timing Detection for Realtime Dialog Systems Using Prosodic and Linguistic Information, Takeuchi et al (2004)
|
Room NSH1505
2. and 3. are not available online.
[slides]
|
| 02-18-05 |
Sublime: a personal information management system (Jahanzeb) |
|
|
| 02-04-05 |
What can anthromorphism do for you? (Cristen) |
|
[slides] |
| 01-28-05 |
Using Word-level Features to Predict Student Emotions in Tutoring Dialogues (Mihai) |
1. "
Using Word-level Features to Better Predict Student Emotions during Spoken Tutoring Dialogues", M. Rotaru and D. Litman
|
[slides] |
| 01-21-04 |
Experimental setup for CAMMIA Evaluation (Jeongwoo) |
|
|
| FALL
2004 |
| 12-17-04 |
An
Investigation into Recovering from Non-understanding Errors
(Dan) |
|
[slides] |
| 12-03-04 |
Learning
Dialog Structure of Task-Oriented Conversations from the
Corpus (Moss) |
|
[slides] |
| 11-19-04 |
Discussion/Brainstorming on
what is important to get right (e.g. dialog behavior,
choice of system prompts, system tuning) before opening a system
to a large public (proposed by Antoine) |
|
|
| 11-05-04 |
Partial
results from a user study on recovering from
non-understandings in a task-oriented spoken dialogue system
(Dan) |
|
|
| 10-22-04 |
Review
of ICSLP'04 (Thomas) |
|
|
| 09-17-04 |
Characterizing
Task-Oriented Dialog using a Simulated ASR Channel
(Jason) |
1. "A
Framework for Dialogue Data Collection with a Simulated ASR
Channel", M. Stuttle, J. Williams, S. Young
2. "Characterizing
Task-Oriented Dialogue using ASR Channel", J.
Williams, S. Young
|
[slides] |
| 09-03-04 |
Flexible
Dialog Management for In-vehicle Dialog Systems
(Jeongwoo) |
|
[slides],
CAMMIA
project home page |
|
|
|
|
| SPRING
2004 |
| 03-19-04 |
Dialog
structure annotation (Moss)
|
1. "HCRC
dialogue structure coding manual", Carletta et al.
2. "Coding
Dialogs with the DAMSL Annotation Scheme",
Core and Allen
3. "Draft
of DAMSL: Dialog Act Markup", Allen and Core.
4. "Conversation
Acts in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue", Traum
and Hinkelman
|
[slides] |
| 03-05-04 |
Utilizing
Natural Language Dialogue within video games (Ajay)
|
1. "Achieving
virtual presence with semi-autonomous robot through a multi-reality and speech
control interface", Simasarian et al.
2. "Speech
Interfaces to Virtual Reality", McGlashan et al.
3. "Voice Morphing
System for Impersonating in Karaoke Applications", Cano et al.
4. "Natural
Negotiation for Believable Agents", Reilly et al.
5. "Interactive
Drama, Art, and Artificial Intelligence", M Mateas, Ph.D. Thesis
|
[slides] |
| 02-20-04 |
Intelligent
help in spoken dialogue systems. (Stefanie)
|
1. "Adding
intelligent help to mixed-initiative spoken dialogue systems",
Gorrell et al. (2002)
2. "Targeted help for
spoken dialogue systems: intelligent feedback improves naive users' performance",
Hockey et al. (2003)
|
[slides] |
| 02-06-04 |
No
Topic; random discussion; planned future topics
|
|
|
| 01-23-04 |
Probabilistic
models of human-computer dialogue (Jason/UK)
|
"A
Probabilistic Model of Human/Computer Dialogue with Application to a
Partially Observable Markov Decision Process", Jason D.
William, Ph.D. 1st year report
|
[slides] |
| 01-19-04 |
Dan's
thesis proposal dry run:
"Error Awareness and Recovery in Task-Oriented Spoken
Dialogue Systems"
|
"Error
Awareness and Recovery in Task-Oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems",
Dan Bohus, Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
|
[slides] |
|
|
|
|
| FALL
2003 |
| 11-21-03 |
On the road to the creation of situation-adaptive dialogue managers. (Ajay)
|
1. "Design of the VICO Spoken Dialogue System: Evaluation of user Expectations by Wizard of Oz Experiments", Geutner et al. (2002)
2. "An Automobile-Integrated System for Assessing and Reacting to Driver Cognitive Load", Pompei et al. (2002)
3. "We are not amused – but how do you know? User States in a multi-modal dialogue system", Batliner et al. (2003)
|
[slides] (from a former related talk) |
| 11-07-03 |
Review
of the MITRE Workshop on Dialogue Management (Dan) |
1.
"COLLAGEN:
Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory to Human-Computer
Interaction" [COLLAGEN]
2. "GoDiS:
An Accomodating Dialogue System" [GoDiS]
3. "Rapid
Prototyping for Spoken Dialogue Systems"
[Ariadne]
4. "Policies
and Procedures for Spoken Dialogue Systems"
[Ariadne]
5. "RavenClaw:
Dialog Management Using Hierarchical Task Decomposition and an
Expectation Agenda" - [RavenClaw] |
[slides] |
| 10-24-03 |
Spoken Dialog and Information Retrieval: Antoine will start the discussion on the subject by presenting some papers and his project for class 11-743 (Advanced IR Seminar and Lab).
|
1.Cases, scripts and information-seeking strategies: On the design of interactive information retrieval systems., Belkin et al (1995).
2.Vocal Access to a Newspaper Archive: Assessing the Limitations of Current Voice Information Access Technology., Crestani (2002).
3.Speech-Driven Information Retrieval: Using Target IR Collections for Statistical Language Model Adaptation in Speech Recognition., Fujii et al (2002).
|
[slides]
Antoine's project page. |
| 10-10-03 |
Report on the Error Handling in Spoken Dialogue Systems satellite workshop of Eurospeech 2003 (Stefanie & Dan)
[studies of human handling of ASR errors / Dan]
|
Proceedings of the workshop (accessible from inside CMU only)
A
Study of Human Dialogue Strategies in the Presence of Speech
Recognition Errors, Teresa Zollo
|
[slides] |
| 09-26-03 |
First
meeting this semester |
|
[Introductions,
setting up the teleconferencing solution, establishing a list
of topics] |
| SPRING
2003 |
| 05-09-03 |
Dialog
Structure for Task Oriented Conversations (Moss) |
1.
Dialog
Structure for Task-Oriented Conversations, Ananlada
(Moss) Chotimongkol
2. HCRC
Dialogue Structure Coding Manual, Carletta J, Isard
A, Isard S, Kowtko J, Doherty-Sneddon G
3. The
Reliability of Dialog Structure Coding Scheme,
Carletta J, Isard A, Isard S, Kowtko J, Doherty-Sneddon G,
Anderson A |
[1]
is Moss's technical report. [2] contains a lot of annotation
examples. [3]
is not much different from [2], but emphasizes more on the
theory |
| 04-18-03 |
Let's
Go! project & BusLine (Antoine) |
Let's
Go: Improving Spoken Dialog Systems for the Elderly and
Non-natives,
A. Raux, B. Langner, A.W. Black, M. Eskenazi |
[slides] |
| 04-04-03 |
Dialog
Systems for Information Retrieval (Antoine, Dan) |
|
[slides] |
| 03-21-03 |
Eric
Fossler - "What did you say?":
Ambiguity and errors in spoken language systems |
|
[Attended
Eric Fossler's talk at UPitt] |
| 03-07-03 |
NASA
Presentations |
|
[We
went for the on campus NASA presentations on natural language
and dialog] |
| 02-21-03 |
1. An overview of the open-source dialog system Ariadne (Matthias)
2.
Grounding
in Spoken Dialog Systems/RavenClaw... (leftovers) |
Rapid
Prototyping for Spoken Dialogue Systems,
M. Denecke
|
[Matthias will present
rapid prototyping in the Ariadne system; if time permits,Dan
will wrap up the discussion on grounding] |
| 02-14-03 |
Dialogs
on Dialogs Book |
|
[we
ended-up brainstorming on the Dialogs on Dialogs book idea] |
| 01-31-03 |
Grounding
in Spoken Dialog Systems (Dan) |
1.
"Contributing to Discourse", H.H.Clark, E.F.
Schaefer, Cognitive Science 13, pp 259-294 (1989) [available
in library; Dan also has a copy]
2. Computational
Models of Grounding, D. Traum
3. DeepListener:
Harnessing Expected Utility to Guide Clarification Dialog in
Spoken Language Systems
4. Grounding
Criterion: Toward a Formal Theory of Grounding
5. Uncertainty,
Utility, and Misunderstanding: A Decision-Theoretic
Perspective on Grounding in Conversational Systems
6. Conversation
as Action Under Uncertainty
|
[Brief
overview of human-human grounding theories (Clark, Traum)
1&2;
main topic: Horvitz & Paek's work - conversation as action under
uncertainty 3,4,5,6][slides] |
| 01-17-03 |
First
meeting this semester |
|
[Touch
base, establish list of topics] |
|
|
|
|
| FALL
2002 |
| 11-22-02 |
Dialogues
in Tutoring Systems (Antoine) |
Intelligent
Tutoring Systems with Conversational Dialogues |
[Antoine
will lead the discussion on the use of dialogue in
intelligent tutoring systems] [slides] |
| 11-08-02 |
James:
A Personal Mobile Universal Speech Interface for Electronic
Devices (Tom) |
James:
A Personal Mobile Universal Speech Interface for Electronic
Devices |
[Tom talked about his Master Thesis proposal][slides] |
| 10-25-02 |
Problem-spotting
in Human-Machine interaction (Dan) |
1.
Error
Detection in Spoken Human-Machine Interaction
2. Problem
Spotting in Human-Machine Interaction
3. The
Dual of Denial: Two Uses of Discomfirmations in Dialog and
Their Prosodic Correlates
4. Analysis
of User Behavior under Error Conditions in Spoken Dialog |
[(2)
is just a shorter version of (1) i think. (4) is the one in
ICSLP this year that i mentioned in the email.] [Slides] |
| 10-11-02 |
Survey
of Dialog Systems and Dialog Management (Matthias) |
1.
Challenges
for Spoken Dialog Systems
2. Conversational
interfaces: Advances and Challenges
3. Dialog
Management Systems: a Survey and Overview |
|
| 10-04-02 |
First
meeting this semester |
|
[Introductions] |
|
|
|
|
| SPRING
2002 |
| 05-01-02 |
Bilingual
parsing and translation (Peter) |
|
[Peter
will give a practice talk for his thesis proposal] |
04-24-02
|
Communicator dialog management, the Sequel
(Dan, Drew) |
An
Agenda-Based Dialog Management Architecture for spoken
language systems |
[
the paper is on the current DM architecture we are using in
communicator. The talk will be on the new architecture, which
spawned off this one ][Slides] |
| 04-10-02 |
Automated concept acquisition
(Moss) |
1.
Automatic
Concept Identification in Goal Oriented Conversations
2.
Semi-Automatic
Acquisition of Domain-Specific Semantic Structures
3. Metrics for Measuring Domain Independence of Semantic Classes
4. Towards Learning Dialogue Structures from Speech Data and Domain
Knowledge: Challenges to Conceptual Clustering using Multiple and Complex
Knowledge Source
|
[Slides] |
| 03-27-02 |
VoiceXML,
SALT & maybe other XMLish dialog things (Stefanie) |
Voice
XML 2.0 Working Draft
Speech Application Language Tags
|
[Slides] |
| 03-19-02 |
Meeting
with Diane Litman |
Bring
your list of questions for Diane :)
|
|
| 03-13-02 |
"Separation of Knowledge
Sources in the Spoken Dialog System Ariadne" (Matthias) |
|
This
was a presentation of Matthias Denecke's thesis work. |
| 02-27-02 |
Reinforcement
Learning in Dialog Management + Detecting Corrections (Ari) |
1.
"Optimizing Dialogue Management with Reinforcement
learning: Experiments with the NJFun system"
2. "Automatic Optimization of Dialogue Management"
3. "Empirical evaluation of a Reinforcement Learning
Spoken Dialogue"
4. "Corrections
in Spoken Dialogue Systems"
5. "Generalizing
Prosodic Prediction of Speech Recognition Errors"
6. "Predicting
user reactions to system errors"
7. "Identifying
user corrections automatically in Spoken Dialogue
Systems"
|
This
is some of Diane Litman's work. 1,2&3 are pretty similar,
and talk about reinforcement learning in DM. 4, 5, 6 & 7 are on
error and correction detection. [Slides] |
| 02-13-02 |
Learning
task structure in the
COLLAGEN architecture (Dan) |
1.
"COLLAGEN:
Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory to Human-Computer
Interaction" - this is the AI Magazine
paper.
2. "Learning
Task Models for Collaborative Discourse"
3. "Learning
Hierarchical Task Models by Defining and Refining
Examples"
4. "Interactively
Defining Examples to be Generalized" |
[1
is a top-level view of the architecture, while 2,3 and 4 are
focused on the learning aspects. 2,3 & 4 seem to have a
lot of overlap] [Slides] |
