Adaptive dialogue modelling for speech-based interaction systemsProfessor Kristiina Jokinen Tuesday 24th January 2006 at 11am
AbstractThe state-of-the-art speech and language technology has reached a level that allows us to build applications which enable users to have short conversations with the system in search for information. Applications deal with directory enquiries, information seeking and booking systems, call centers, etc. Interactions are usually characterised by simple predefined patterns which often leave the user unsatisfied due to their repetitive and unhelpful nature. In this talk, I will discuss possibilities formaking interaction more flexible and natural by taking some human language capabilities into account. Especially, I will focus on the Constructive Dialogue Management approach so as to model aspects of interaction that contribute to smoothness of interaction, and on adaptive user modelling so as to take the user's expertise level into account. I will also review the work done in the EU-project DUMAS on an adaptive speech-based email-application. Short resumeDr. Jokinen is a Professor of Language Technology at the University of Helsinki, and Project Director at Media Lab at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. She leads research in the IDIS (Intelligent Dialogue Systems) Group, and is the scientific coordinator in the EU-project DUMAS. She directed the collaboration project Interact (2001-2003) on natural human-computer interaction technology, supported by the Finnish Technology Agency and IT-industry, and iscurrently responsible for dialogue and interaction research for the two technology projects 4Mand PUMS.She also coordinates the Finnish part in the Nordic Multimodal Interfaces network MUMIN, and within the network has co-organised Nordic symposiums and courses on multimodality and multimodal annotation. She is the secretary of SIGDial, an ISCA (International Speech Communication Association) and ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics) Special Interest Group for Discourse and Dialogue (2003-2006), and co-chaired the 3rd SIGDial Workshop in 2002. Prior to her appointments in Helsinki, she worked as a research manager in the newly established research group CELE (Centre for Evolutionary Language Engineering) at Flanders Language Valley, Belgium, andspent four years in Japan (1994-1999) asthe Japanese Government JSPS Fellow at NAIST (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), and as an invited researcher at ATR (Advanced Telecommunications Research Lab) in Kyoto. |