KRPDS 2013 - 8th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems

8th Workshop on Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems
Organizers: Ingrid Zukerman, Jan Alexandersson, Arne Jönsson and David Traum
Short description:
The eighth IJCAI workshop on ''Knowledge and Reasoning in Practical Dialogue Systems'' will focus on challenges arising due to comprehension difficulties in dialogue systems. These difficulties include speech recognition errors and speech disfluencies in spoken dialogue systems, syntax errors, out-of-grammar and out-of-vocabulary phenomena, rambling discourse, as well as non-cooperative dialogues. Topics addressed in the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
Approaches for identifying different types of comprehension difficulties, ranging from mis-hearing to uncooperative interlocutors. In particular, how does a dialogue system determine how well it has understood an utterance?
Approaches for addressing these difficulties, eg correcting likely hearing problems, learning unknown words, and asking clarification questions.
How different types of comprehension difficulties interact with different parts of a dialogue system, eg interpretation, dialogue strategy, and response generation.
Robustness when faced with unpredictability and comprehension difficulties.
How can we implement dialogue systems that take into consideration their environment? What is the role of the environment in addressing comprehension difficulties?
What are the most appropriate ways to evaluate dialogue systems for different applications and situations. In particular, how does one evaluate robustness when faced with comprehension difficulties?
Website:
http://www.ida.liu.se/~arnjo/KRPDS13/