Integrating incremental speech recognition and POMDP-based dialogue systems

  • Authors:
  • Ethan O. Selfridge;Iker Arizmendi;Peter A. Heeman;Jason D. Williams

  • Affiliations:
  • Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR;AT&T Labs -- Research, Shannon Laboratory, NJ;Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • 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

The goal of this paper is to present a first step toward integrating Incremental Speech Recognition (ISR) and Partially-Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) based dialogue systems. The former provides support for advanced turn-taking behavior while the other increases the semantic accuracy of speech recognition results. We present an Incremental Interaction Manager that supports the use of ISR with strictly turn-based dialogue managers. We then show that using a POMDP-based dialogue manager with ISR substantially improves the semantic accuracy of the incremental results.