Title

From Acts and Topics to Transactions and Dialogue Smoothness

Author(s)

Hans Dybkjær (1), Laila Dybkjær (2)

(1) Prolog Development Center A/S (PDC), H. J. Holst Vej 3C-5C, 2605 Brøndby, Denmark, dybkjaer@pdc.dk; (2) Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark, laila@nis.sdu.dk

Session

O41-EMS

Abstract

Measuring transaction success and dialogue smoothness is extremely time consuming and costly when done manually and on many dialogues but is the only possibility today for spoken dialogue systems without a very clear success state. This paper investigates the possibility of automatic derivation of transaction success for task-oriented dialogues based on simple act-topic annotations.

Keyword(s)

Automatic annotation, transaction success, acts, topics, spoken dialogue, dialogue smoothness, patterns, task-oriented human-computer dialogue

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Full Paper

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