Developing a spoken dialog system is typically time-consuming, and must often be accomplished using difficult-to-learn professional technologies. Most existing toolkits use statistical semantic parsers and model a dialogue interaction as a finite-state network. However, for developing flexible spoken Chinese dialogue systems, these toolkits have several problems. A new toolkit named the d-Ear SDS SDK is introduced here. The SDK suggests a multi-session dialogue system framework with a powerful semantic parser specially designed for spoken Chinese understanding, and a powerful dialogue manager providing non-finite-state dialogue control. To set up a new dialogue system, the developer can customize all the system modules with domain-specific information and operations, using the d-Ear SDS Studio to save time. Using the SDK, we have built several dialogue systems with excellent performance in a very short time.
Cite as: Wu, X., Zheng, T.F., Brasser, M., Song, Z. (2005) Rapidly developing spoken Chinese dialogue systems with the d-ear SDS SDK. Proc. Interspeech 2005, 829-832, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2005-385
@inproceedings{wu05b_interspeech,
author={Xiaojun Wu and Thomas Fang Zheng and Michael Brasser and Zhanjiang Song},
title={{Rapidly developing spoken Chinese dialogue systems with the d-ear SDS SDK}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2005},
pages={829--832},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2005-385}
}