A Speech Interface to Virtual Environments (2007)
Scott Mcglashan And, Scott Mcglashan, Tomas Axling
Virtual reality has sometimes been thought of as embodying a return to a `natural' way of interacting by direct manipulation of objects in a world. However, in the everyday world we also act...
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...
A Speech Interface to Virtual Environments (2007)
Virtual reality has sometimes been thought of as embodying a return to a `natural' way of interacting by direct manipulation of objects in a world. However, in the everyday world we also act...
Multimodal Agent Interfaces Olga- a conversational agent with gestures (2007)
The Olga project has developed an animated agent interface for information services. The interface combines a graphical interface, spoken dialogue and an animated 3D ‘human-like ’ character for...
Scott Mcglashan, Norman Fraser, Nigel Gilbert, Eric Bilange
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Olga - a dialogue system with an animated talking agent (1997)
Jonas Beskow, Kjell Elenius, Scott Mcglashan
The object of the Olga project is to develop an interactive 3D animated talking agent. A futuristic application scenario is interactive digital TV, where the alga agent would guide naive users...
Olga - a Conversational Agent With Gestures (1997)
Introduction The Olga project has developed an animated agent interface for information services. The interface combines a graphical interface, spoken dialogue and an animated 3D `human-like'...
Mcglashan S, Jonas Beskow, Kjell Elenius, Scott Mcglashan
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OLGA - A dialogue system with an animated (1997)
Talking Agent Jonas, Jonas Beskow, Kjell Elenius, Scott Mcglashan
The object of the Olga project is to develop an interactive 3D animated talking agent. A futuristic application scenario is interactive digital TV, where the Olga agent would guide naive users...
Units of Dialogue Management: an example (1996)
Paul Heisterkamp, Scott Mcglashan
This paper concerns dialogue management for spoken dialogue. We show why we do not use speech-act related units or intentions. We base our approach on belief states of the system. Layered units are...
Towards Multimodal Dialogue Management (1996)
This paper describes dialogue management techniques which have been developed for spoken dialogue systems, and how these techniques are being used in a multimodal system which combines a speech...
Spoken Language Dialogue Systems Part IV: The Dialogue Manager (1996)
Contents 1 The Dialogue Manager 2 1.1 Corpus Analysis : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 2 1.2 Dialogue Manager Design Principles : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 9 1.2.1...
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
Talking to Agents in Virtual Worlds (1996)
this paper, we discuss technical and design issues which need to be addressed in order to combine a direct manipulation interface to virtual reality with a speech interface. Two prototype systems are...
Units Of Dialogue Management: An Example (1996)
Paul Heisterkamp, Scott Mcglashan
This paper concerns dialogue management for spoken dialogue. We show why we do not use speech-act related units or intentions. We base our approach on belief states of the system. Layered units are...
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...
Speech Interfaces to Virtual Reality (1995)
In this paper, we consider how speech interfaces can be combined with a direct manipulation interface to virtual reality. We outline the benefits of adding a speech interface, the requirements it...
A compositional DRS-based formalism for NLP-applications (1994)
Johan Bos, Johan Bos, Elsbeth Mastenbroek, Elsbeth Mastenbroek, Scott Mcglashan, Scott Mcglashan, ...
gefordert. Die Verantwortung fur den Inhalt dieser Arbeit liegt bei dem Autor. This paper describes and discusses the formalism which forms the backbone of semantic processing in the verbmobil spoken...
Johan Bos, Elsbeth Mastenbroek, Scott Mcglashan, Sebastian Millies, Manfred Pinkal
This report describes the semantic formalism developed at Saarbrucken University as part of the Verbmobil project. The formalism is based upon DRT with additional functionality to meet the...
Semantic and Dialogue Processing in the VERBMOBIL Spoken Dialogue Translation System (1994)
Elisabeth Maier, Scott Mcglashan
In this paper we sketch the role of semantic and dialogue processing in the verbmobil spoken dialogue translation system. A full demonstration system is currently under development although a `mini...
Semantic and Dialogue Processing in the VERBMOBIL Spoken Dialogue Translation System (1994)
Elisabeth Maier, Elisabeth Maier, Elisabeth Maier, Scott Mcglashan, Scott Mcglashan, Scott Mcglashan
In this paper we sketch the role of semantic and dialogue processing in the verbmobil spoken dialogue translation system. A full demonstration system is currently under development although a...
The Verbmobil Syntax Semantics Interface - Version 1.2 (1994)
Elsbeth Mastenbroek, Elsbeth Mastenbroek, Scott Mcglashan, Scott Mcglashan, Gehort Zum Antragsabschnitt
This memo offers a working definition of the interface between the syntactic and semantic components of the Verbmobil demonstrator system. A subsequent version of the memo will address the...
The Verbmobil Semantic Formalism (Version 1.3) (1994)
Johan Bos, Johan Bos, Elsbeth Mastenbroek, Elsbeth Mastenbroek, Scott Mcglashan, Scott Mcglashan, ...
This report describes the semantic formalism developed at Saarbrucken University as part of the Verbmobil project. The formalism is based upon DRT with additional functionality to meet the...
The Role of Semantics in Spoken Dialogue Translation Systems (1994)
In this paper, we consider the role of semantics in the spoken dialogue translation systems. We begin by looking at some of the key properties of an existing spoken dialogue system, namely the...
Semantic and Dialogue Processing in the VERBMOBIL Spoken Dialogue Translation System (1994)
Elisabeth Maier, Scott Mcglashan
In this paper we sketch the role of semantic and dialogue processing in the verbmobil spoken dialogue translation system. A full demonstration system is currently under development although a...
The Sundial Spoken Dialogue Systems (1994)
Scott Mcglashan, Nigel Gilbert
The work described in this video has been carried out as part of the Sundial project (Speech UNderstanding in DIALogue), one of the largest collaborative speech technology projects in Europe...
Heads in Grammatical Theory. Introduction. (1993)
Corbett, Greville G., Fraser, Norman M., McGlashan, Scott
Contemporary linguistic theories distinguish the principal element of a phrase - the 'head' - from the subordinate elements it dominates. This pervasive grammatical concept has been used to describe...
Managing Spoken Dialogues for Information Services (1993)
Wieland Eckert, Scott Mcglashan
This paper presents an approach to managing spoken dialogues in information services systems. We describe how the approach, based upon a tri--partite model of interaction, addresses the problems of...
Managing Spoken Dialogues for Information Services (1993)
Wieland Eckert, Scott Mcglashan
This paper presents an approach to managing spoken dialogues in information services systems. We describe how the approach, based upon a tri--partite model of interaction, addresses the problems of...
Heads and Lexical Semantics (1993)
Introduction This chapter discusses the syntactic and semantic relations between the `head of a phrase' and the phrase itself. 1 In particular, the phrase is a `kind of' the head since the...
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...
Towards a Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Language Comprehension (1992)
G. Scott Mcglashan, Scott Mcglashan
This thesis develops a cognitive linguistic approach to language comprehension. The cognitive approach differs from traditional linguistic approaches in that linguistic description is seen as an...
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...