Semantic specificity in spoken dialogue requests

Ben Hixon; Rebecca J. Passonneau; Susan L. Epstein

Semantic specificity in spoken dialogue requests

Ben Hixon, Rebecca J. Passonneau, Susan L. Epstein

Computer Science and Engineering

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4 Scopus citations

Abstract

Ambiguous or open-ended requests to a dialoguesystem result in more complex dialogues.We present a semantic-specificity metricto gauge this complexity for dialogue systemsthat access a relational database. An experimentwhere a simulated user makes requeststo a dialogue system shows that semanticspecificity correlates with dialogue length.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	257-260
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781937284442
State	Published - 2012
Event	13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2012 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Jul 5 2012 → Jul 6 2012

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Name	SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

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Other	13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2012
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	7/5/12 → 7/6/12

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Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Modeling and Simulation
Human-Computer Interaction

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Hixon, B., Passonneau, R. J., & Epstein, S. L. (2012). Semantic specificity in spoken dialogue requests. In SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 257-260). (SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Hixon, Ben ; Passonneau, Rebecca J. ; Epstein, Susan L. / Semantic specificity in spoken dialogue requests. SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2012. pp. 257-260 (SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference).

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Hixon B, Passonneau RJ, Epstein SL. Semantic specificity in spoken dialogue requests. In SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2012. p. 257-260. (SIGDIAL 2012 - 13th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference).

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