The past decade has seen a revolution in the field of spoken dialogue systems. As in other
areas of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, data-driven methods are now being …

Approaches are provided for answering an inquiry of a cognitive distributed network. An
approach includes receiving the inquiry at the cognitive distributed network. The approach …

Search engines can quickly respond to a hyperlink list according to query keywords.
However, when a query is complex, developers need to repeatedly refine search keywords …

Abstract We use Reinforcement Learning (RL) to learn question-answering dialogue
policies for a real-world application. We analyze a corpus of interactions of museum visitors …

Speech-based web search where no keyboard or screens are available to present search
engine results is becoming ubiquitous, mainly through the use of mobile devices and …

In spoken dialog systems, information must be presented sequentially, making it difficult to
quickly browse through a large number of options. Recent studies have shown that user …

Presenting search results over a speech-only communication channel involves a number of
challenges for users due to cognitive limitations and the serial nature of speech. We …

We propose research to investigate a new paradigm for Interactive Information Retrieval
(IIR) where all input and output is mediated via speech. Our aim is to develop a new …

The increasing amount of information available online has led to the development of
technologies that help to deal with it. One of them is Interactive Question Answering (IQA), a …

Question answering (QA) has become one of the fastest growing topics in computational
linguistics and information access. To advance research in the area of dialogue-based …