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Characterizing and Predicting Corrections in Spoken Dialogue Systems

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Litman, Diane, Hirschberg, Julia, Swerts, Marc·2006·Computational Linguistics

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This article focuses on the analysis and prediction of corrections, defined as turns where a user tries to correct a prior error made by a spoken dialogue system. We describe our labeling procedure of various corrections types and statistical analyses of their features in a corpus collected from a train information spoken dialogue system. We then present results of machine-learning experiments designed to identify user corrections of speech recognition errors. We investigate the predictive power of features automatically computable from the prosody of the turn, the speech recognition process, experimental conditions, and the dialogue history. Our best-performing features reduce classification error from baselines of 25.70–28.99% to 15.72%.

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  • [43] utilised the TOOT train information corpus from 1999.

    “For instance,[43] utilised the TOOT train information corpus from 1999.”

    From System and User Strategies to Repair Conversational Breakdowns of Spoken Dialogue Systems: A Scoping Review (2024) · cites this paper as [43]

    Section 2.1, “The TOOT Corpus” (page unavailable), says the authors used dialogues from TOOT, a system providing train information, and Section 5 says they analyzed corrections in that corpus. Section 2.1 cites Litman and Pan (1999) when describing why TOOT was collected, but does not establish that the corpus itself dates from 1999. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • The selection of user-repair strategies is not random but is significantly influenced by the system's repair strategies.

    “Importantly, the selection of user-repair strategies is not random but is significantly influenced by the system's repair strategies [43, 50, 60, 61].”

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  1. Cohen, W. 1996. Learning trees and rules with set-valued features. In 14th Conference of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, pages 709-716, Portland.
  2. Kirchhoff, Katrin. 2001. A comparison of classification techniques for the automatic detection of error corrections in human-computer dialogues. In Proceedings of the NAACL Workshop on Adaptation in Dialogue Systems, pages 33-40, Pittsburgh, PA.
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Authors
Litman, D., Hirschberg, J., & Swerts, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • Columbia University (US)
  • Tilburg University (NL)
Venue
Computational Linguistics
Published
2006-09
Volume
32
Issue
3
Pages
417-438
ISSN
  • 0891-2017 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-9312
OpenAlex
W2096643992
Cited by
56
References
37
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 4
FWCI
4.95
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Computational Linguistics (publishedVersion)
  • Research portal (Tilburg University) (publishedVersion)
  • D-Scholarship@Pitt (University of Pittsburgh) (acceptedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
  • Universiteit Antwerpen
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech and dialogue systems
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Speech Recognition and Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
Keywords
spoken dialogue systems, user corrections, speech recognition errors, prosody features, dialogue history

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