April 26, 2007 |
| 8:30–8:40 | Opening |
| 8:40–9:00 | Applying POMDPs to Dialog Systems in the Troubleshooting Domain
Jason Williams |
| 9:00–9:20 | Training a real-world POMDP-based Dialog System
Blaise Thomson, Jost Schatzmann, Karl Weilhammer, Hui Ye and Steve Young |
| 9:20–9:40 | The Multimodal Presentation Dashboard
Michael Johnston, Patrick Ehlen, David Gibbon and Zhu Liu |
| 9:20–10:00 | Technical Support Dialog Systems:Issues, Problems, and Solutions
Kate Acomb, Jonathan Bloom, Krishna Dayanidhi, Phillip Hunter, Peter Krogh, Esther Levin and Roberto Pieraccini |
| 10:00–10:30 | Break |
| 10:30–10:50 | Olympus: an open-source framework for conversational spoken language interface research
Dan Bohus, Antoine Raux, Thomas Harris, Maxine Eskenazi and Alexander Rudnicky |
| 10:50–11:10 | Toward Evaluation that Leads to Best Practices: Reconciling Dialog Evaluation in Research and Industry
Tim Paek |
| 11:10–11:30 | Experiments on the France Telecom 3000 Voice Agency corpus: academic research on an industrial spoken dialog system
Géraldine Damnati, Frédéric Béchet and Renato De Mori |
| 11:30–11:50 | Experiences of an In-Service Wizard-of-Oz Data Collection for the Deployment of a Call-Routing Application
Mats Wirén, Robert Eklund, Fredrik Engberg, and Johan Westermark |
| 11:50-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00–2:30 | Panel Discussion |
| 2:42–2:54 | Multi-slot semantics for natural-language call routing systems
Johan Boye and Mats Wirén |
| 2:54–3:06 | Enhancing commercial grammar-based applications using robust approaches to speech understanding
Hebert Matthieu |
| 3:06–3:18 | WIRE: A Wearable Spoken Language Understanding System for the Military
Helen Hastie, Patrick Craven and Michael Orr |
| 3:18–3:30 | Different measurement metrics to evaluate a chatbot system
Bayan Abu Shawar and Eric Atwell |
| 3:30–4:00 | Break |
| 4:00–6:00 | Panel on Spoken Dialog Corpus Composition and Annotation for Research |