MIMI

Problems with Spontaneous Spoken Dialogues

• Context Dependency of Utterances
• Disfluencies
• Misunderstandings
• Negotiation
• Natural Conversational Speed

System Requirements

• Robustness
• Relevance Recognition
• Context Modelling
• Dialogue Modelling
• Speed

Combining Information Extraction and Speech Recognition

• Information Extraction System FASTUS
• Speech Recognizer from SRI STAR Lab

Conference Room Reservation (CRR) Dialogues

• Participants: Client and Clerk
• About: Reserving or Canceling Conference Rooms
• Language: Japanese
• 150 dialogues recorded and transcribed

Publications about MIMI

• Initial design considerations --- Kameyama, Megumi and Isao Arima. A minimalist approach to information extraction from spoken dialogues. In the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Spoken Dialogue (ISSD-93), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, November, 1993, 137-140.
• Problems of unrestricted dialogues and solutions
• Proving robustness in a real-time dialogue summarization system
• Long synthesis paper (in preparation)

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