Automatic detection of poor speech recognition at the dialogue level

  • Authors:
  • Diane J. Litman;Marilyn A. Walker;Michael S. Kearns

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, N.J.;AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, N.J.;AT&T Labs Research, Florham Park, N.J.

  • Venue:
  • ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The dialogue strategies used by a spoken dialogue system strongly influence performance and user satisfaction. An ideal system would not use a single fixed strategy, but would adapt to the circumstances at hand. To do so, a system must be able to identify dialogue properties that suggest adaptation. This paper focuses on identifying situations where the speech recognizer is performing poorly. We adopt a machine learning approach to learn rules from a dialogue corpus for identifying these situations. Our results show a significant improvement over the baseline and illustrate that both lower-level acoustic features and higher-level dialogue features can affect the performance of the learning algorithm.