Enabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users

Ramin Yaghoubzadeh, Stefan Kopp


Abstract
We present the flexdiam dialogue management architecture, which was developed in a series of projects dedicated to tailoring spoken interaction to the needs of users with cognitive impairments in an everyday assistive domain, using a multimodal front-end. This hybrid DM architecture affords incremental processing of uncertain input, a flexible, mixed-initiative information grounding process that can be adapted to users’ cognitive capacities and interactive idiosyncrasies, and generic mechanisms that foster transitions in the joint discourse state that are understandable and controllable by those users, in order to effect a robust interaction for users with varying capacities.
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W17-5533
Volume:
Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
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August
Year:
2017
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Saarbrücken, Germany
Editors:
Kristiina Jokinen, Manfred Stede, David DeVault, Annie Louis
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SIGDIAL
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SIGDIAL
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
273–283
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https://aclanthology.org/W17-5533
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5533
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Ramin Yaghoubzadeh and Stefan Kopp. 2017. Enabling robust and fluid spoken dialogue with cognitively impaired users. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 273–283, Saarbrücken, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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