Obiettivo Spoken dialogue systems (SDSs), i.e. computer systems that can understand and react to spoken input and conduct a dialogue about a restricted topic with a human user, have enormous commercial and social potential, by making information and services (customer services, governmental information and services, etc.) accessible via the most natural interface available to people: speech. Present systems, however, are still quite error-prone and often misunderstand their users in various ways.Our project aims at systematically researching the issue of clarifying misunderstandings, and at enabling systems to intelligently negotiate understanding problems with their users. The host institution, Potsdam University, has built up considerable expertise in symbolic-reasoning approaches to dialogue modelling, but lacks the complementary knowledge of statistical methods and speech processing algorithms and technology. Thus our current research treats these issues as "black boxes'' --- which places significant limitations on the goals that can be achieved. Consequently, our ToK proposal seeks to close this gap by attracting two experienced researchers (for 24 months each) and two more-experienced researchers (for 4 months each) to collaborate with us on the specific project on clarifying misunderstandings, thereby transferring to us knowledge about statistical methods and speech processing, which however is of much broader relevance to us than for the project alone.We aim at integrating the incoming fellows not only into our research group but also to encourage them to participate in teaching our students. Furthermore, our connections to local companies that market voice dialogue systems are also expected to benefit from the project, as our overall expertise in building dialogue systems grows. In this way, the project can contribute to strengthen the potential of Dialogue Systems research in Berlin/Brandenburg, which is a less-favoured area of Europe. Programma(i) FP6-MOBILITY - Human resources and Mobility in the specific programme for research, technological development and demonstration "Structuring the European Research Area" under the Sixth Framework Programme 2002-2006 Argomento(i) MOBILITY-1.3 - Marie Curie Host Fellowships - Transfer of knowledge (TOK) Invito a presentare proposte FP6-2002-MOBILITY-3 Vedi altri progetti per questo bando Meccanismo di finanziamento TOK - Marie Curie actions-Transfer of Knowledge Coordinatore UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Am Neuen Palais 10 POTSDAM Germania Mostra sulla mappa Collegamenti Sito web Opens in new window Costo totale Nessun dato