Abstract
An important issue in the design of an oral dialogue system consists of identifying the domain-dependent knowledge needed to specify the different system levels (acoustic, linguistic, dialogue). This paper describes a original approach for the obtention of such domain-dependent material, based on a computerised version of the Wizard of Oz method, generally used for the simulation of Human-to-Machine dialogues. With this computerised environment, the accomplice managing the simulation is constrained to adopt a deterministic machine-like behaviour, so that we finally obtain a better simulation of the target system. Simulation results are presented, confirming the efficiency of the method.
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Andry, F., Bilange, E., Charpentier, F., Choukri, K., Ponamale, M., Soudoplatoff, S. (1990). Computerised Simulation Tools for the Design of an Oral Dialogue System. In: ESPRIT ’90. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0705-8_24
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