The GEMINI platform: semi-automatic generation of dialogue applications

Hamerich, Stefan W.; Schless, Volker; Kladis, Basilis; Schubert, Volker; Kocsis, Otilia; Igel, Stefan; Córdoba, Ricardo de; D’Haro, Luis Fernando; Pardo, José Manuel

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2004-699

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DialogDesigner: tools support for dialogue model design and evaluation

Dybkjær

2006

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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DialogDesigner is an integrated design and development environment that supports dialogue designers in creating an electronic dialogue model, writing dialogue snippets, running and analysing simulation sessions, getting graphical views of the model, making automatic evaluation regarding dialogue model well-formedness, compiling the model into run-time code, and extracting different presentations. DialogDesigner has been used for research purposes as well as in commercial projects. Its primary focus is on providing support for the development process. We explain underlying ideas, illustrate the functionality of DialogDesigner and discuss its strengths.

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DialogDesigner: tools support for dialogue model design and evaluation

Dybkjær

2006

Lang Resources & Evaluation

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An advanced platform to speed up the design of multilingual dialog applications for multiple modalities

D’Haro

Córdoba

Ferreiros

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Speech Communication

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In this paper, we present a complete platform for the semiautomatic and simultaneous generation of human-machine dialog applications in two different and separate modalities (Voice and Web) and several languages to provide services oriented to obtaining or modifying the information from a database (data-centered). Given that one of the main objectives of the platform is to unify the application design process regardless of its modality or language and then to complete it with the specific details of each one, the design process begins with a general description of the application, the data model, the database access functions, and a generic finite state diagram consisting of the application flow. With this information, the actions to be carried out in each state of the dialog are defined. Then, the specific characteristics of each modality and language (grammars, prompts, presentation aspects, user levels, etc.) are specified in later assistants. Finally, the scripts that execute the application in the real-time system are automatically generated.We describe each assistant in detail, emphasizing the methodologies followed to ease the design process, especially in its critical aspects. We also describe different strategies and characteristics that we have applied to provide portability, robustness, adaptability and high performance to the platform. We also address important issues in dialog applications such as mixed initiative and over-answering, confirmation handling or providing long lists of information to the user. Finally, the results obtained in a subjective evaluation with different designers and in the creation of two full applications that confirm the usability, flexibility and standardization of the platform, and provide new research directions.

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A flexible VXML interpreter for non-visual web access

Borodin

2006

Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

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VoiceXML (VXML) is a W3C's standard for specifying interactive dialogs. It finds multiple uses in various Web applications. VXML can also be used in non-visual Web browsing. There is no suitable, complete, open-source, flexible VXML interpreter to process VXML dialogs. My project is focusing on developing a VXML interpreter, VXMLSurf, that will be fully compliant with VXML 2.0 specifications and geared toward accessing Web content. VXMLSurf implements a number of extended features that provide blind users with more control over interactive browsing dialogs. VXMLSurf is a part of the HearSay project for developing a non-visual Web browser. The goal of the project is to make the Web more accessible for blind people.

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The GEMINI platform: semi-automatic generation of dialogue applications

Cited by 9 publications

References 3 publications

DialogDesigner: tools support for dialogue model design and evaluation

DialogDesigner: tools support for dialogue model design and evaluation

An advanced platform to speed up the design of multilingual dialog applications for multiple modalities

A flexible VXML interpreter for non-visual web access

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