Title
Localized Error Detection For Targeted Clarification In A Virtual Assistant
Abstract
We propose a novel approach for addressing automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language understanding (NLU) errors in an interactive spoken dialog system using targeted clarification (TC). TC applies when a spoken utterance is partially recognized by focusing a clarification question on the misrecognized part of the utterance. A key component of TC is accurate detection of localized ASR and NLU errors in an utterance. In this work, we develop statistical models of presence and correctness for domain concepts within an ASR/NLU result and use these to drive a targeted clarification (TC) strategy. We evaluate the accuracy of the models and their effect on the dialog strategy in an interactive multimodal assistant.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)
Clarification, dialog, error detection
Field
DocType
ISSN
Dialog box,Remote assistance,Spoken dialog,Computer science,Correctness,Utterance,Error detection and correction,Speech recognition,Natural language understanding,Statistical model,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing
Conference
1520-6149
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Svetlana Stoyanchev110413.61
michael j g johnston244759.76