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Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems

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In this paper we present extensions to the spoken dialogue system EVAR which are crucial issues for the next generation dialogue systems. EVAR was developed at the University of Erlangen. In 1994, it became accessible over telephone line and could answer inquiries in the German language about German InterCity train connections. It has since been continuously improved and extended, including some unique features, such as the processing of out-of-vocabulary words and a flexible dialogue strategy that adapts to the quality of the recognition of the user input.

This research was funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) under contract number 810 939-9, by the EC in the framework of the Copernicus project COP-1634 (SQEL), and by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF) in the framework of the Verbmobil Project under Grant 01 IV 701 K5. The responsibility for the contents of this article lies with the authors.

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  1. Chair for Pattern Recognition, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstr. 3, D-91058, Erlangen-Nuremberg

    E. Nöth, F. Gallwitz, J. Haas, S. Harbeck, R. Huber & H. Niemann

  2. Bavarian Research Centre for Knowledge-Based Systems (FORWISS), Am Weichselgarten 7, D-91058, Erlangen, Germany

    M. Aretoulaki

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineerig, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia in Plzeň, Universitní 22, 306 14, Pizeň, Czech Republic

    Václav Matousek , Pavel Mautner  & Jana Ocelíková ,  & 

  2. Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

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Nöth, E. et al. (1999). Research Issues for the Next Generation Spoken Dialogue Systems. In: Matousek, V., Mautner, P., Ocelíková, J., Sojka, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1692. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48239-3_1

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