Spoken dialog systems have the potential to offer highly intuitive user interfaces, as they allow systems to be controlled using natural language. However, the complexity inherent in natural language dialogs means that careful testing of the system must be carried out from the very beginning of the design process. This book examines how user models can be used to support such early evaluations in two ways: by running simulations of dialogs, and by estimating the quality judgments of users. First, a design environment supporting the creation of dialog flows, the simulation of dialogs, and the analysis of the simulated data is proposed. How the quality of user simulations may be quantified with respect to their suitability for both formative and summative evaluation is then discussed. The remainder of the book is dedicated to the problem of predicting quality judgments of users based on interaction data. New modeling approaches are presented, which process the dialogs as sequences, and which allow knowledge about the judgment behavior of users to be incorporated into predictions. All proposed methods are validated with example evaluation studies.
Klaus-Peter Engelbrecht
Estimating Spoken Dialog System Quality with User Models
Estimating Spoken Dialog System Quality with User Models
Língua Inglês ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 130 ● ISBN 9783642315916 ● Tamanho do arquivo 2.1 MB ● Editora Springer Berlin ● Cidade Heidelberg ● País DE ● Publicado 2012 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 2663708 ● Proteção contra cópia DRM social