BEETLE II: Deep natural language understanding and automatic feedback generation for intelligent tutoring in basic electricity and electronics

M Dzikovska, N Steinhauser, E Farrow, J Moore… - International Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
Within STEM domains, physics is considered to be one of the most difficult topics to master,
in part because many of the underlying principles are counter-intuitive. Effective teaching …

Recent approaches to dialog management for spoken dialog systems

CJ Lee, SK Jung, KD Kim, DH Lee… - Journal of Computing …, 2010 - koreascience.kr
A field of spoken dialog systems is a rapidly growing research area because the
performance improvement of speech technologies motivates the possibility of building …

Multithreaded context for robust conversational interfaces: Context-sensitive speech recognition and interpretation of corrective fragments

O Lemon, A Gruenstein - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
We focus on the issue of robustness of conversational interfaces that are flexible enough to
allow natural" multithreaded" conversational flow. Our main advance is to use context …

Adapting speaking after evidence of misrecognition: Local and global hyperarticulation

AJ Stent, MK Huffman, SE Brennan - Speech Communication, 2008 - Elsevier
In this paper we examine the two-way relationship between hyperarticulation and evidence
of misrecognition of computer-directed speech. We report the results of an experiment in …

Reducing working memory load in spoken dialogue systems

M Wolters, K Georgila, JD Moore… - Interacting with …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We evaluated two strategies for alleviating working memory load for users of voice
interfaces: presenting fewer options per turn and providing confirmations. Forty-eight users …

Hybrid approach to robust dialog management using agenda and dialog examples

C Lee, S Jung, K Kim, GG Lee - Computer Speech & Language, 2010 - Elsevier
Spoken dialog systems have difficulty selecting which action to take in a given situation
because recognition and understanding errors are prevalent due to noise and unexpected …

[PDF][PDF] A methodology for comparing grammar-based and robust approaches to speech understanding.

M Rayner, P Bouillon… - …, 2005 - access.archive-ouverte.unige.ch
We present a series of experiments designed to compare grammar-based and robust
approaches to speech understanding, performed in the context of an Open Source medical …

Making it easier for older people to talk to smart homes: The effect of early help prompts

KM Wolters, KP Engelbrecht, F Gödde, S Möller… - Universal Access in the …, 2010 - Springer
It is well known that help prompts shape how users talk to spoken dialogue systems. This
study investigated the effect of help prompt placement on older users' interaction with a …

A general purpose architecture for intelligent tutoring systems

B Clark, O Lemon, A Gruenstein, EO Bratt, J Fry… - Advances in Natural …, 2005 - Springer
The goal of the Conversational Interfaces project at CSLI is to develop a general purpose
architecture which supports multi-modal dialogues with complex devices, services, and …

Managing out-of-grammar utterances by topic estimation with domain extensibility in multi-domain spoken dialogue systems

K Komatani, S Ikeda, T Ogata, HG Okuno - Speech Communication, 2008 - Elsevier
Spoken dialogue systems must inevitably deal with out-of-grammar utterances. We address
this problem in multi-domain spoken dialogue systems, which deal with more tasks than a …