Full Description
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems Technology (IWSDS), which was held, as a satellite event of INTERSPEECH 2010, at Gotemba Kogen Resort in the Fuji area, Japan, October 1-2, 2010. The annual workshop brings together researchers from all over the world working in the ?eld of spoken dialogue systems. It provides an international - rum for the presentation of research and applications and for lively discussions among researchers as well as industrialists. Building on the success of IWSDS 2009Irsee,Germany,thisyear'sworkshopdesignated"SpokenDialogueSystems for Ambient Environments" as a special theme of discussion. We also enco- aged discussions of common issues of spoken dialogue systems including but not limited to: - Speech recognition and semantic analysis - Dialogue management - Adaptive dialogue modelling - Recognition of emotions from speech, gestures, facial expressions and ph- iological data - User modelling - Planning and reasoning capabilities for coordinationand con?ict description - Con?ict resolution in complex multi-level decisions - Multi-modality such as graphics, gesture and speech for input and output - Fusion and information management - Learning and adaptability - Visual processing and recognition for advanced human-computer interaction - Databases and corpora - Evaluation strategies and paradigms - Prototypes and products The workshop program consisted of 22 regular papers and 2 invited keynote talks.
This year, we were pleased to have two keynote speakers: Prof. Ram' on L' opez-C' ozar, Universidad de Granada, Spain and Prof. Tetsunori Kobayashi, Waseda University, Japan.
Contents
Long Papers.- Impact of a Newly Developed Modern Standard Arabic Speech Corpus on Implementing and Evaluating Automatic Continuous Speech Recognition Systems.- User and Noise Adaptive Dialogue Management Using Hybrid System Actions.- Detection of Unknown Speakers in an Unsupervised Speech Controlled System.- Evaluation of Two Approaches for Speaker Specific Speech Recognition.- Issues in Predicting User Satisfaction Transitions in Dialogues: Individual Differences, Evaluation Criteria, and Prediction Models.- Expansion of WFST-Based Dialog Management for Handling Multiple ASR Hypotheses.- Evaluation of Facial Direction Estimation from Cameras for Multi-modal Spoken Dialog System.- D3 Toolkit: A Development Toolkit for Daydreaming Spoken Dialog Systems.- New Technique to Enhance the Performance of Spoken Dialogue Systems by Means of Implicit Recovery of ASR Errors.- Simulation of the Grounding Process in Spoken Dialog Systems with Bayesian Networks.- Facing Reality: Simulating Deployment of Anger Recognition in IVR Systems.- A Discourse and Dialogue Infrastructure for Industrial Dissemination.- Short Papers.- Impact of Semantic Web on the Development of Spoken Dialogue Systems.- A User Model to Predict User Satisfaction with Spoken Dialog Systems.- Sequence-Based Pronunciation Modeling Using a Noisy-Channel Approach.- Rational Communication and Affordable Natural Language Interaction for Ambient Environments.- Construction and Experiment of a Spoken Consulting Dialogue System.- A Study Toward an Evaluation Method for Spoken Dialogue Systems Considering User Criteria.- A Classifier-Based Approach to Supporting the Augmentation of the Question-Answer Database for Spoken Dialogue Systems.- The Influence of the Usage Mode on Subjectively Perceived Quality.- Demo Papers.- Sightseeing Guidance Systems Based on WFST-Based Dialogue Manager.- Spoken Dialogue System Based on Information Extraction from Web Text.
