{"id":319,"date":"2008-11-10T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=319"},"modified":"2008-11-09T16:30:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T20:30:39","slug":"language-mit-1112-stephanie-seneff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2008\/11\/10\/language-mit-1112-stephanie-seneff\/","title":{"rendered":"Language @MIT - 11\/12 - Stephanie Seneff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the kick-off installment of a new talk series, Language @MIT. <\/p>\n<p>Title: Spoken Conversational Systems<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nSpeaker: Stephanie Seneff, Spoken Language Systems group, CSAIL<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWhen: Wednesday Nov 12, 3-4:30pm<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWhere: <a href=\"http:\/\/whereis.mit.edu\/map-jpg?mapterms=26-310\">26-310<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<P>The Spoken Language Systems group in CSAIL has been developing  multimodal<br clear='none'\/>\ndialogue systems for over two decades.  These systems  typically provide<br clear='none'\/>\ninformation on a specific topic such as flight  scheduling, weather,<br clear='none'\/>\ngeographical information, calendar management, etc. Our goal has been to build<br clear='none'\/>\nsystems that engage in natural spoken  conversation, using a so-called<br clear='none'\/>\n&#8220;mixed-initiative&#8221; dialogue strategy.   In this talk, I will first give a high<br clear='none'\/>\nlevel overview of system  architecture and components.  The main content of the<br clear='none'\/>\ntalk will  emphasize discourse and dialogue modelling, in the context of these<br clear='none'\/>\nspoken dialogue systems.  I will also describe techniques used to  stress test the<br clear='none'\/>\nsystem and guide system development, such as simulated  dialogue interaction.<br clear='none'\/>\nI will mainly use the multimodal restaurant  domain and the telephone-access<br clear='none'\/>\nflight scheduling domain as illustrative examples. Audio and video clips will<br clear='none'\/>\nbe played to  demonstrate system capabilities.<\/P>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is the kick-off installment of a new talk series, Language @MIT. Title: Spoken Conversational Systems Speaker: Stephanie Seneff, Spoken Language Systems group, CSAIL When: Wednesday Nov 12, 3-4:30pm Where: 26-310 The Spoken Language Systems group in CSAIL has been developing multimodal dialogue systems for over two decades. These systems typically provide information on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}