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In this paper, we propose a strategy for designing dialogue managers in spoken dialogue systems for a restricted domain. This strategy combines several information sources intuition, observation and simulation, in order to maximize the adaptation within the system capability and the expectation of the user. These sources are combined by an iterative process consisting of five steps, where different dialogue alternatives are proposed and evaluated sequentially. The evaluation process includes different measures depending on the information required. Several measures are proposed and analyzed in each step. We also describe a user-modeling technique and an approach for designing the confirmation sub-dialogues based on recognition confidence measures. The knowledge-combining methodology is described and applied to a railway information system. In a subjective evaluation, users from the university gave the system a 3.9 score on a 5-point scale with an average call duration of 205 seconds. The employers of the railway company were more critical of the system. They gave it a score of 2.1 even though the system resolved more than half of the calls (57.8%) within an average call duration of three minutes (185 seconds).
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San-Segundo, R., Montero, J., Macías-Guarasa, J. et al. Knowledge-Combining Methodology for Dialogue Design in Spoken Language Systems. Int J Speech Technol 8, 45–66 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-005-4761-y
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