ESCA Workshop on Interactive Dialogue in Multi-Modal Systems (IDS-99)

June 22-25, 1999
Kloster Irsee, Germany

Design Principles and Tools for Multimodal Dialog Systems

Alexandros Potamianos, Hong-Kwang Kuo, Chin-Hui Lee, Andrew Pargellis, Antoine Saad, and Qiru Zhou

Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

We review e orts in defining design principles and creating tools for building multimodal dialog systems with emphasis on the speech modality. General design principles and challenges are outlined. The focus is on system architecture, application and speech interface design, data collection and evaluation tools. We conclude that modularity, flexibility, customizability, domain-independence and automatic dialog generation are some important features of successful dialog systems and design tools.


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Bibliographic reference.  Potamianos, Alexandros / Kuo, Hong-Kwang / Lee, Chin-Hui / Pargellis, Andrew / Saad, Antoine / Zhou, Qiru (1999): "Design principles and tools for multimodal dialog systems", In IDS-99, 167-170.