Please distribute this announcement: Call for papers (submission deadline Friday 17 April 2009)
Special Session : "Machine Learning for Adaptivity in Spoken Dialogue Systems" at Interspeech 2009, Brighton U.K., http://www.interspeech2009.org/ Session chairs: Oliver Lemon, Edinburgh University, and Olivier Pietquin, Supélec - IMS Research Group In the past decade, research in the field of Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) has experienced increasing growth, and new applications include interactive mobile search, tutoring, and troubleshooting systems (e.g. fixing a broken internet connection). The design and optimization of robust SDS for such tasks requires the development of dialogue strategies which can automatically adapt to different types of users (novice/expert, youth/senior) and noise conditions (room/street). New statistical learning techniques are emerging for training and optimizing adaptive speech recognition, spoken language understanding, dialogue management, natural language generation, and speech synthesis in spoken dialogue systems. Among machine learning techniques for spoken dialogue strategy optimization, reinforcement learning using Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) and Partially Observable MDP (POMDPs) has become a particular focus. We therefore solicit papers on new research in the areas of: - Adaptive dialogue strategies and adaptive multimodal interfaces - User simulation techniques for adaptive strategy learning and testing - Rapid adaptation methods - Reinforcement Learning of dialogue strategies - Partially Observable MDPs in dialogue strategy optimization - Statistical spoken language understanding in dialogue systems - Machine learning and context-sensitive speech recognition - Learning for adaptive Natural Language Generation in dialogue - Corpora and annotation for machine learning approaches to SDS - Machine learning for adaptive multimodal interaction - Evaluation of adaptivity in statistical approaches to SDS and user simulation. Important Dates-- Full paper submission deadline: Friday 17 April 2009 Notification of paper acceptance: Wednesday 17 June 2009 Conference dates: 6-10 September 2009 -- Olivier Pietquin, PhD Associate Professor, Head of IMS Research Group SUPELEC - Campus de Metz 2 rue Edouard Belin 57070 Metz - FRANCE Email: olivier.pietq...@supelec.fr Home: http://ims.metz.supelec.fr/~pietquin/ Tel: +33 387 76 47 70 --- Fax: +33 387 76 47 22
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