Recently the spoken dialog group of ITC-irst and the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica of the University of Pavia are working together to realize an intelligent spoken dialog system with adaptation capabilities. In this framework, some telemedicine services able to handle multimodal interactions are going to be investigated and developed. In the paper dialog "adaptation" will be defined according to the medical domains in which the system is going to be used: i.e. to assist chronic patients. The present architecture of the system will be described and some ideas for its future development will be discussed. Although the system is placed in medical domains, the basic concepts can, in principle, be exported towards different applications. The work reported in the paper is part of a more wide-ranging project aimed at efficiently merging patient and domain specific knowledge, with statistical knowledge (e.g. n-grams and/or concept probabilities) derived from real user interactions.
Cite as: Azzini, I., Falavigna, D., Gretter, R., Lanzola, G., Orlandi, M. (2001) First steps toward an adaptive spoken dialogue system in medical domain. Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001), 1327-1330, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-343
@inproceedings{azzini01_eurospeech,
author={Ivano Azzini and Daniele Falavigna and Roberto Gretter and Giordano Lanzola and Marco Orlandi},
title={{First steps toward an adaptive spoken dialogue system in medical domain}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)},
pages={1327--1330},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-343}
}