The Carnegie Mellon Communicator is a telephone-based dialog system that supports planning in a travel domain. The implementation of such a system requires two complimentary components, an architecture capable of managing interaction and the task, as well as a knowledge base that captures the speech, language and task characteristics specific to the domain. Given a suitable architecture, the principal effort in development in taken up in the acquisition and processing of a domain knowledge base. This paper describes a variety of techniques we have applied to modeling in acoustic, language, task, generation and synthesis components of the system.
Cite as: Rudnicky, A.I., Bennett, C., Black, A.W., Chotimongkol, A., Lenzo, K., Oh, A., Singh, R. (2000) Task and domain specific modelling in the Carnegie Mellon communicator system. Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), vol. 2, 130-134, doi: 10.21437/ICSLP.2000-226
@inproceedings{rudnicky00_icslp,
author={Alexander I. Rudnicky and Christina Bennett and Alan W. Black and Ananlada Chotimongkol and Kevin Lenzo and Alice Oh and Rita Singh},
title={{Task and domain specific modelling in the Carnegie Mellon communicator system}},
year=2000,
booktitle={Proc. 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000)},
pages={vol. 2, 130-134},
doi={10.21437/ICSLP.2000-226}
}