• DocumentCode
    1858666
  • Title

    Dialog systems for surveys: the rate-a-course system

  • Author

    Stent, A. ; Stenchikova, S. ; Marge, M.

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Sci. Dept., Stony Brook Univ., Stony Brook, NY
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    210
  • Lastpage
    213
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we discuss why surveys are an interesting application of spoken dialog systems from both commercial and research perspectives. We then describe a prototype survey spoken dialog system, the Rate-A-Course system. We show how dialog epiphenomena, including the order in which questions are answered and the duration of respondents´ answers, can be used to learn information beyond that covered explicitly by survey questions.
  • Keywords
    educational administrative data processing; educational courses; interactive systems; speech-based user interfaces; educational course; rate-a-course survey dialog system; spoken dialog system; Application software; Computer science; Costs; Councils; Customer service; Humans; Internet; Natural languages; Oral communication; Prototypes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Spoken Language Technology Workshop, 2006. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Palm Beach
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0872-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SLT.2006.326792
  • Filename
    4123399