Paper Info
Title
Where do we go from here? Research and commercial spoken dialog systems
Abstract
The spoken dialog industry has reached a ma- turity characterized by a vertical structure of technology vendors, platform integrators, ap- plication developers, and hosting companies. At the same time industrial standards are per- vading the underlying technology and provid- ing higher and higher levels of interoperability. On one hand commercial dia- log systems are largely based on a pragmatic approach which aims at usability and task completion. On the other hand, spoken dialog research has been moving on a parallel path trying to attain naturalness and freedom of communication. However, the evolution of the commercial path shows that naturalness and freedom of expression are not necessarily a prerequisite for usability, given the constraints of the current technology. The difference be- tween the two goals has been influencing a parallel evolution of the architectures and in particular of the dialog management abstrac- tions. We believe it is the time to get a high level perspective on both lines of work, and aim to a synergistic convergence.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
SIGDIAL Workshop
parallel evolution
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
20
2.28
References 
Authors
14
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roberto Pieraccini1913136.14
Juan Huerta2295.22