Juliana Miehle


2020

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Estimating User Communication Styles for Spoken Dialogue Systems
Juliana Miehle | Isabel Feustel | Julia Hornauer | Wolfgang Minker | Stefan Ultes
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

We present a neural network approach to estimate the communication style of spoken interaction, namely the stylistic variations elaborateness and directness, and investigate which type of input features to the estimator are necessary to achive good performance. First, we describe our annotated corpus of recordings in the health care domain and analyse the corpus statistics in terms of agreement, correlation and reliability of the ratings. We use this corpus to estimate the elaborateness and the directness of each utterance. We test different feature sets consisting of dialogue act features, grammatical features and linguistic features as input for our classifier and perform classification in two and three classes. Our classifiers use only features that can be automatically derived during an ongoing interaction in any spoken dialogue system without any prior annotation. Our results show that the elaborateness can be classified by only using the dialogue act and the amount of words contained in the corresponding utterance. The directness is a more difficult classification task and additional linguistic features in form of word embeddings improve the classification results. Afterwards, we run a comparison with a support vector machine and a recurrent neural network classifier.

2018

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Expert Evaluation of a Spoken Dialogue System in a Clinical Operating Room
Juliana Miehle | Nadine Gerstenlauer | Daniel Ostler | Hubertus Feußner | Wolfgang Minker | Stefan Ultes
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

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What Causes the Differences in Communication Styles? A Multicultural Study on Directness and Elaborateness
Juliana Miehle | Wolfgang Minker | Stefan Ultes
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)

2016

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Cultural Communication Idiosyncrasies in Human-Computer Interaction
Juliana Miehle | Koichiro Yoshino | Louisa Pragst | Stefan Ultes | Satoshi Nakamura | Wolfgang Minker
Proceedings of the 17th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue

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Automatic Modification of Communication Style in Dialogue Management
Louisa Pragst | Juliana Miehle | Stefan Ultes | Wolfgang Minker
Proceedings of the INLG 2016 Workshop on Computational Creativity in Natural Language Generation