Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Thomas Visser; David Traum; David DeVault; Rieks op den Akker

Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Thomas Visser, David Traum, David DeVault, Rieks op den Akker

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Abstract

Recent advances in incremental language processing for dialogue systems promise to enable more natural conversation between humans and computers. By analyzing the user's utterance while it is still in progress, systems can provide more human-like overlapping and backchannel responses to convey their level of understanding and respond more quickly. In this paper, we look at examples of several overlapping response types in human-human dialogues, and present an initial computational model of the incremental grounding process in these responses. Additionally, we describe an implementation of this model in a virtual human dialogue system that can provide backchannels, head nods, frowns, completions and low latency responses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Joint Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2012 Workshops
Subtitle of host publication	Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012
Editors	Ronald Böck, Francesca Bonin, Nick Campbell, Jens Edlund, Iwan de Kok, Ronald Poppe, David Traum
Place of Publication	Magdeburg, Germany
Publisher	Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
Pages	101-108
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-3-940961-83-9
Publication status	Published - 15 Sept 2012
Event	Workshop on Real-Time Conversations with Virtual Agents, RCVA 2012 - Santa Cruz, United States Duration: 15 Sept 2012 → 15 Sept 2012

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Workshop	Workshop on Real-Time Conversations with Virtual Agents, RCVA 2012
Abbreviated title	RCVA
Country/Territory	United States
City	Santa Cruz
Period	15/09/12 → 15/09/12

Keywords

HMI-HF: Human Factors
Spoken dialogue systems
Grounding
Incremental language processing

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Visser, T., Traum, D., DeVault, D., & op den Akker, R. (2012). Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. In R. Böck, F. Bonin, N. Campbell, J. Edlund, I. de Kok, R. Poppe, & D. Traum (Eds.), Joint Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2012 Workshops: Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012 (pp. 101-108). Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.

Visser, Thomas ; Traum, David ; DeVault, David et al. / Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. Joint Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2012 Workshops: Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012. editor / Ronald Böck ; Francesca Bonin ; Nick Campbell ; Jens Edlund ; Iwan de Kok ; Ronald Poppe ; David Traum. Magdeburg, Germany : Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 2012. pp. 101-108

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Visser, T, Traum, D, DeVault, D & op den Akker, R 2012, Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. in R Böck, F Bonin, N Campbell, J Edlund, I de Kok, R Poppe & D Traum (eds), Joint Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2012 Workshops: Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012. Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany, pp. 101-108, Workshop on Real-Time Conversations with Virtual Agents, RCVA 2012, Santa Cruz, California, United States, 15/09/12.

Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. / Visser, Thomas; Traum, David; DeVault, David et al.
Joint Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2012 Workshops: Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012. ed. / Ronald Böck; Francesca Bonin; Nick Campbell; Jens Edlund; Iwan de Kok; Ronald Poppe; David Traum. Magdeburg, Germany: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, 2012. p. 101-108.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Visser T, Traum D, DeVault D, op den Akker R. Toward a Model for Incremental Grounding in Spoken Dialogue Systems. In Böck R, Bonin F, Campbell N, Edlund J, de Kok I, Poppe R, Traum D, editors, Joint Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents 2012 Workshops: Santa Cruz, California, September 15, 2012. Magdeburg, Germany: Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. 2012. p. 101-108

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