Semantic specificity in spoken dialogue requests

Authors:
Ben Hixon;Rebecca J. Passonneau;Susan L. Epstein
Affiliations:
Hunter College of The City University of New York, New York, NY;Columbia University, New York, NY;Hunter College, and The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York, NY
Venue:
SIGDIAL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Year:
2012

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Abstract

Ambiguous or open-ended requests to a dialogue system result in more complex dialogues. We present a semantic-specificity metric to gauge this complexity for dialogue systems that access a relational database. An experiment where a simulated user makes requests to a dialogue system shows that semantic specificity correlates with dialogue length.