Online error detection of barge-in utterances by using individual users' utterance histories in spoken dialogue system

Kazunori Komatani*, Hiroshi G. Okuno

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We develop a method to detect erroneous interpretation results of user utterances by exploiting utterance histories of individual users in spoken dialogue systems that were deployed for the general public and repeatedly utilized. More specifically, we classify barge-in utterances into correctly and erroneously interpreted ones by using features of individual users' utterance histories such as their barge-in rates and estimated automatic speech recognition (ASR) accuracies. Online detection is enabled by making these features obtainable without any manual annotation or labeling. We experimentally compare classification accuracies for several cases when an ASR confidence measure is used alone or in combination with the features based on the user's utterance history. The error reduction rate was 15% when the utterance history was used.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the SIGDIAL 2010 Conference: 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group onDiscourse and Dialogue
Pages289-296
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2010 - Tokyo
Duration: 2010 Sept 242010 Sept 25

Other

Other11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2010
CityTokyo
Period10/9/2410/9/25

ASJC Scopus subject areas

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

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