Combining acoustic and pragmatic features to predict recognition performance in spoken dialogue systems

  • Authors:
  • Malte Gabsdil;Oliver Lemon

  • Affiliations:
  • Saarland University, Germany;Edinburgh University, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • ACL '04 Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We use machine learners trained on a combination of acoustic confidence and pragmatic plausibility features computed from dialogue context to predict the accuracy of incoming n-best recognition hypotheses to a spoken dialogue system. Our best results show a 25% weighted f-score improvement over a baseline system that implements a "grammar-switching" approach to context-sensitive speech recognition.