Belief Modelling in Dialogues With Unreliable Input (2007)
We present an approach to discourse modelling capable of dealing with unreliable input. The component described forms part of a human-computer natural language dialogue system. In this paper we...
Evaluating Synthesised Prosody In Simulations Of An Automated Telephone Enquiry Service (2007)
Jill House, Catriona Macdermid, Scott Mcglashan, Andrew Simpson, Nick Youd
Dialogue material has been collected using bionic Wizard-of-Oz simulations of an automated voice-driven dialogue system; system turns, using rule-based speech synthesis, were systematically varied...
Dialogue Management for Telephone Information Systems (1996)
Scott Mcglashan, Eric Bilange, Norman Fraser, Nigel Gilbert, Paul Heisterkamp, Nick Youd
this paper has been carried out as part of the Sundial project (Speech UNderstanding in DIALogue) which is currently one of the largest collaborative speech technology projects in Europe
Semantic Interpretation in Dialogue (1996)
This paper describes the approach to belief modelling developed within the Sundial system. The system, playing the role of a co-operative agent in spoken dialogues, provides users with information in...
Dialogue Management for Telephone Information Systems (1992)
Scott Mcglashan, Norman Fraser, Nigel Gilbert, Guildford U. K, Eric Bilange, Paul Heisterkamp, ...
A distributed approach to spoken dialogue management for real-time telephone information systems is outlined. 1 Introduction The approach to dialogue management described here has been developed as...
Generating Utterances in Dialogue Systems (1992)
This paper describes the language output component of the Sundial spoken dialogue system. Following a dialogue planning decision to produce an utterance, an utterance planning component derives a...
Making DATR work for speech: lexicon compilation in SUNDIAL (1992)
François Andry, Norman Fraser, Scott Mcglashan, Simon Thornton, Nick Youd
We present dialex, an inheritance-based tool which facilitates the rapid construction of linguistic knowledge bases. Simple lexical entries are added to an application-specific datr lexicon which...
Dialogue Semantics For An Oral Dialogue System (1992)
Paul Heisterkamp, Daimler-benz Ag, Scott Mcglashan, Guildford U. K, Nick Youd
This paper describes the component in the SUNDIAL spoken dialogue system responsible for semantic interpretation of user input. This component, the `belief module ', constructs interpretations...