Project description Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics Show the project objective Hide the project objective Significant advances in human-computer interaction will require systems which can exhibit truly cognitive behaviour. This is particularly so in spoken dialogue systems (SDS) where, despite wide deployment and significant investment, current systems are still limited in capability and fragile to changes in environment or application. Recent advances in statistical modelling and machine learning offer the potential for making a significant step forward in SDS. By both exploiting and extending these advances, the CLASSiC project will improve generalization to unexpected situations. By modelling the whole end-to-end system as an integrated statistical process, the CLASSiC project will demonstrate a qualitative leap in the adaptivity, flexibility, robustness, and naturalness of SDS.The CLASSiC partners will develop a modular processing framework with an explicit representation of uncertainty which connects the various sources of uncertainty (understanding errors, ambiguity, etc) to the constraints to be exploited (task, dialogue, and user contexts). This architecture will support a layered hierarchy of supervised learning and reinforcement learning in order to facilitate mathematically principled optimisation and adaptation techniques. The architecture will be developed in close cooperation with our industrial partner in order to ensure that it provides a practical deployment platform as well as a flexible research test-bed.The resulting CLASSiC SDS will be able to adapt autonomously both to the needs of different users and to changing operating environments, and to learn through experience. The data-driven methodology will also enable faster and lower-cost system implementation through automatic optimisation. Overall, the project will demonstrate not only a step-change in the capability of practical spoken dialogue systems, it will also mark a significant step forward in the longer term goal of endowing autonomous systems with truly human-like capabilities. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningsupervised learningnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learningreinforcement learning Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2007.2.1 - Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2007-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY EU contribution € 451 202,00 Address Riccarton EH14 4AS Edinburgh United Kingdom See on map Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Eva Olszewska-Day (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE Switzerland EU contribution € 638 013,00 Address RUE DU GENERAL DUFOUR 24 1211 Geneve See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Région lémanique Genève Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Alex Waehry (Dr) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Ecole Superieure D'Eiectricite France EU contribution € 638 332,00 Address RUE JOLIOT CURIE - PLATEAU DE MOULON 3 91192 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Fanny GAGET (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data ORANGE SA France EU contribution € 501 167,00 Address 111 QUAI DU PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 92130 Issy Les Moulineaux See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Hauts-de-Seine Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Sophie MARTIN (Ms) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH United Kingdom EU contribution € 522 516,00 Address OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE EH8 9YL Edinburgh See on map Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Angela Noble (Miss) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom EU contribution € 648 770,00 Address TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS CB2 1TN Cambridge See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Dawn Barker (Mrs) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data