Title
Metrics for Evaluating Dialogue Strategies in a Spoken Language System
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a set of metrics for the evaluation of different dialogue management strategies in an implemented real-time spoken language system. The set of metrics we propose offers useful insights in evaluating how particular choices in the dialogue management can affect the overall quality of the man-machine dialogue. The evaluation makes use of established metrics: the transaction success, the contextual appropriateness of system answers, the calculation of normal and correction turns in a dialogue. We also define a new metric, the implicit recovery, which allows to measure the ability of a dialogue manager to deal with errors by different levels of analysis. We report evaluation data from several experiments, and we compare two different approaches to dialogue repair strategies using the set of metrics we argue for.
Year
Venue
Keywords
1996
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
real time
Field
DocType
Volume
Dialogue management,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Database transaction,Report evaluation,Spoken language
Journal
cmp-lg/9612003
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
73
10.99
6
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Morena Danieli116132.23
Elisabetta Gerbino29819.87