Labeling corrections and aware sites in spoken dialogue systems

  • Authors:
  • Julia Hirschberg;Marc Swerts;Diane Litman

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ;IPO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;AT&T Labs--Research, Florham Park, NJ

  • Venue:
  • SIGDIAL '01 Proceedings of the Second SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue - Volume 16
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper deals with user corrections and aware sites of system errors in the TOOT spoken dialogue system. We first describe our corpus, and give details on our procedure to label corrections and aware sites. Then, we show that corrections and aware sites exhibit some prosodic and other properties which set them apart from 'normal' utterances. It appears that some correction types, such as simple repeats, are more likely to be correctly recognized than other types, such as paraphrases. We also present evidence that system dialogue strategy affects users' choice of correction type, suggesting that strategy-specific methods of detecting or coaching users on corrections may be useful. Aware sites tend to be shorter than other utterances, and are also more difficult to recognize correctly for the ASR system.