TY - CHAP A1 - Baumann, Timo A1 - Schlangen, David T1 - Predicting the Micro-Timing of User Input for an Incremental Spoken Dialogue System that Completes a User’s Ongoing Turn T2 - SIGDIAL 2011 Conference, 12th annual meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Co-located with ACL HLT 2011, Portland, Oregon, 17 - 18 June 2011 N2 - We present the novel task of predicting tem-poral features of continuations of user input,while that input is still ongoing. We show that the remaining duration of an ongoing word, aswell as the duration of the next can be predicted reasonably well, and we put this information touse in a system that synchronously completesa user’s speech. While we focus on collaborative completions, the techniques presented here may also be useful for the alignment of back-channels and immediate turn-taking in anincremental SDS, or to synchronously monitorthe user’s speech fluency for other reasons. Y1 - 2011 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220794517_Predicting_the_Micro-Timing_of_User_Input_for_an_Incremental_Spoken_Dialogue_System_that_Completes_a_User%27s_Ongoing_Turn SN - 978-1-61839-242-8 SP - 120 EP - 129 PB - Curran CY - Red Hook, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baumann, Timo A1 - Buß, Okko A1 - Schlangen, David T1 - Evaluation and Optimisation of Incremental Processors JF - Dialogue & Discourse N2 - Incremental spoken dialogue systems, which process user input as it unfolds, pose additionalengineering challenges compared to more standard non-incremental systems: Their processingcomponents must be able to accept partial, and possibly subsequently revised input, and mustproduce output that is at the same time as accurate as possible and delivered with as little delay aspossible. In this article, we define metrics that measure how well a given processor meets thesechallenges, and we identify types of gold standards for evaluation. We exemplify these metrics inthe evaluation of several incremental processors that we have developed. We also present genericmeans to optimise some of the measures, if certain trade-offs are accepted. We believe that thiswork will help enable principled comparison of components for incremental dialogue systems andportability of results. KW - evaluation KW - incrementality, KW - spoken dialogue systems KW - incremental processing KW - timing Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5087/dad.2011.106 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 113 EP - 141 PB - OJS ER -