{"title":"Dialogue Interaction with the DARPA Communicator Infrastructure: The Development of Useful Software","authors":"Samuel Bayer, Christine Doran, Bryan George","doi":"10.3115/1072133.1072169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1072133.1072169","url":null,"abstract":"To support engaging human users in robust, mixed-initiative speech dialogue interactions which reach beyond current capabilities in dialogue systems, the DARPA Communicator program [1] is funding the development of a distributed message-passing infrastructure for dialogue systems which all Communicator participants are using. In this presentation, we describe the features of and requirements for a genuinely useful software infrastructure for this purpose.","PeriodicalId":108911,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research - HLT '01","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116013910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Dutton, M. Walker, Selina M. Chu, J. Hubbell, Shrikanth S. Narayanan
{"title":"Amount of Information Presented in a Complex List: Effects on User Performance","authors":"D. Dutton, M. Walker, Selina M. Chu, J. Hubbell, Shrikanth S. Narayanan","doi":"10.3115/1072133.1072137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1072133.1072137","url":null,"abstract":"AT&T Communicator is a state-of-the-art speech-enabled telephony-based application that allows the end-user to, among other things, select and reserve airline itineraries. This experiment explores how the amount and structure of information presented in complex lists influences the user experience and the ability of subjects to successfully complete a selection task. Presenting all the relevant information needed for a decision at once was the factor that most positively influenced successful task completion and the user experience. Subjects preferred hearing all of the relevant information about each flight, without initiating additional dialog with the system. Additionally, successful task completion rates improved when all of the flights were presented at once, without any intervening questions from the system.","PeriodicalId":108911,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research - HLT '01","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114470190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic Predicate Argument Analysis of the Penn TreeBank","authors":"Martha Palmer, Joseph Rosenzweig, S. Cotton","doi":"10.3115/1072133.1072143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1072133.1072143","url":null,"abstract":"One of the primary tasks of Information Extraction is recognizing all of the different guises in which a particular type of event can appear. For instance, a meeting between two dignitaries can be referred to as A meets B or A and B meet, or a meeting between A and B took place/was held/opened/convened/finished/dragged on or A had/presided over a meeting/conference with B","PeriodicalId":108911,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research - HLT '01","volume":"93 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125004652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automatic Title Generation for Spoken Broadcast News","authors":"Rong Jin, Alexander Hauptmann","doi":"10.3115/1072133.1072144","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1072133.1072144","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we implemented a set of title generation methods using training set of 21190 news stories and evaluated them on an independent test corpus of 1006 broadcast news documents, comparing the results over manual transcription to the results over automatically recognized speech. We use both F1 and the average number of correct title words in the correct order as metric. Overall, the results show that title generation for speech recognized news documents is possible at a level approaching the accuracy of titles generated for perfect text transcriptions.","PeriodicalId":108911,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research - HLT '01","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130900608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Morgan, D. Baron, Jane Edwards, D. Ellis, David Gelbart, Adam L. Janin, T. Pfau, Elizabeth Shriberg, A. Stolcke
{"title":"The Meeting Project at ICSI","authors":"N. Morgan, D. Baron, Jane Edwards, D. Ellis, David Gelbart, Adam L. Janin, T. Pfau, Elizabeth Shriberg, A. Stolcke","doi":"10.3115/1072133.1072203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1072133.1072203","url":null,"abstract":"In collaboration with colleagues at UW, OGI, IBM, and SRI, we are developing technology to process spoken language from informal meetings. The work includes a substantial data collection and transcription effort, and has required a nontrivial degree of infrastructure development. We are undertaking this because the new task area provides a significant challenge to current HLT capabilities, while offering the promise of a wide range of potential applications. In this paper, we give our vision of the task, the challenges it represents, and the current state of our development, with particular attention to automatic transcription.","PeriodicalId":108911,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research - HLT '01","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133105158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Meng, S. Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, H. Wang
{"title":"Mandarin-English Information (MEI)","authors":"H. Meng, S. Khudanpur, Gina-Anne Levow, Douglas W. Oard, H. Wang","doi":"10.3115/1117586.1117590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3115/1117586.1117590","url":null,"abstract":"We describe a system which supports English text queries searching for Mandarin Chinese spoken documents. This is one of the first attempts to tightly couple speech recognition with machine translation technologies for cross-media and cross-language retrieval. The Mandarin Chinese news audio are indexed with word and subword units by speech recognition. Translation of these multiscale units can effect cross-language information retrieval. The integrated technologies will be evaluated based on the performance of translingual speech retrieval.","PeriodicalId":108911,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the first international conference on Human language technology research - HLT '01","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122492071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}