Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue

Myroslava O. Dzikovska; Charles B. Callaway; Elaine Farrow; Johanna D. Moore; Natalie B. Steinhauser; Gwendolyn E. Campbell

Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue

Myroslava O. Dzikovska, Charles B. Callaway, Elaine Farrow, Johanna D. Moore, Natalie B. Steinhauser, Gwendolyn E. Campbell

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Abstract

We describe an approach to dealing with interpretation errors in a tutorial dialogue system. Allowing students to provide explanations and generate contentful talk can be helpful for learning, but the language that can be understood by a computer system is limited by the current technology. Techniques for dealing with understanding problems have been developed primarily for spoken dialogue systems in informationseeking domains, and are not always appropriate for tutorial dialogue. We present a classification of interpretation errors and our approach for dealing with them within an implemented tutorial dialogue system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Editors	Patrick G. T. Healey, Roberto Pieraccini, Donna K. Byron, Steve Young, Matthew Purver
Place of Publication	Stroudsburg, PA, USA
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	38-45
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	978-1-932432-64-0
Publication status	Published - Sept 2009
Event	The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue - London, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Sept 2009 → 12 Sept 2009

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Conference	The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	11/09/09 → 12/09/09

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Dzikovska, M. O., Callaway, C. B., Farrow, E., Moore, J. D., Steinhauser, N. B., & Campbell, G. E. (2009). Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue. In P. G. T. Healey, R. Pieraccini, D. K. Byron, S. Young, & M. Purver (Eds.), Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (pp. 38-45). Association for Computational Linguistics. http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-3906.pdf

Dzikovska, Myroslava O. ; Callaway, Charles B. ; Farrow, Elaine et al. / Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue. Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. editor / Patrick G. T. Healey ; Roberto Pieraccini ; Donna K. Byron ; Steve Young ; Matthew Purver. Stroudsburg, PA, USA : Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. pp. 38-45

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Dzikovska, MO, Callaway, CB, Farrow, E, Moore, JD, Steinhauser, NB & Campbell, GE 2009, Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue. in PGT Healey, R Pieraccini, DK Byron, S Young & M Purver (eds), Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Association for Computational Linguistics, Stroudsburg, PA, USA, pp. 38-45, The 10th Annual SIGDIAL Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue, London, United Kingdom, 11/09/09. <http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-3906.pdf>

Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue. / Dzikovska, Myroslava O.; Callaway, Charles B.; Farrow, Elaine et al.
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Dzikovska MO, Callaway CB, Farrow E, Moore JD, Steinhauser NB, Campbell GE. Dealing with Interpretation Errors in Tutorial Dialogue. In Healey PGT, Pieraccini R, Byron DK, Young S, Purver M, editors, Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2009 Conference: The 10th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue. Stroudsburg, PA, USA: Association for Computational Linguistics. 2009. p. 38-45

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