SIGdial 2018

19th Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue

Interpreting spoken referring expressions in physical settings

Prof. Ingrid Zukerman

Human discourse is sometimes ambiguous or inaccurate, and may contain words that are unknown to a dialogue system. These phenomena are exacerbated in a spoken dialogue system due to ASR error. I describe our approach to address these problems when interpreting spoken referring expressions in physical settings, and outline a recent experiment in the generation of responses to these referring expressions.