Title

The French MEDIA/EVALDA project: the evaluation of the understanding capability of Spoken Language Dialogue Systems

Author(s)

L. Devillers (1), H. Maynard (1), S. Rosset (1), P. Paroubek (1), K. McTait (2), D. Mostefa (2), K. Choukri (2), L. Charnay (3), C. Bousquet (4), N. Vigouroux ( 4), F. Béchet (5), L. Romary (6), J.Y Antoine (7), J. Villaneau (7), M. Vergnes (8), J. Goulian (9)

(1) LIMSI-CNRS, (2) ELDA/ELRA, (3) FRANCE-TELECOM R&D, (4) IRIT,(5) LIA, (6) LORIA, (7) VALOR IA, (8) VECSYS, (9) CLIPS, media@elda.fr

Session

P27-SE

Abstract

The aim of the MEDIA project is to design and test a methodology for the evaluat ion of context-dependent and independent spoken dialogue systems. We propose an evaluation paradigm based on the use of test suites from real-world corpora and a common semantic representation and common metrics. This paradigm should allow us to diagnose the context-sensitive understanding capability of dialogue system s. This paradigm will be used within an evaluation campaign involving several si tes all of which will carry out the task of querying information from a database .

Keyword(s)

evaluation methodology, semantic annotation, context-sensitive understanding capability, spoken language dialog system.

Language(s)

N/A

Full Paper

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