LING 575 - Spoken Dialog Systems
Spring 2017
Specialized Topics - Multi-linguality and Dialog


Dialog to Improve Speech-to-Speech Translation
Sridhar et al, 2013Vivek Kumar Rangarajan Sridhar, Srinivas Bangalore, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2013) Enriching machine-mediated speech-to-speech translation using contextual information. Computer Speech & Language 27(2): 492-508
Ayan et al., 2013Necip Fazil Ayan, Arindam Mandal, Michael Frandsen, Jing Zheng, Peter Blasco, Andreas Kathol, Frederic Bechet, Benoit Favre, Alex Marin, Tom Kwiatkowski, Mari Ostendorf, Luke Zettlemoyer, Philipp Salletmayr, Julia Hirschberg, Svetlana Stoyanchev. (2013) "Can you give me another word for hyperbaric?": Improving speech translation using targeted clarification questions, ICASSP 2013.
Bechet et al., 2015Frederic Bechet, Benoit Favre, Mickael Rouvier. "Speech is silver, but silence is golden": improving speech-to-speech translation performance by slashing users input. Interspeech 2015
Shin et al, 2013JongHo Shin, Panayiotis G. Georgiou, Shrikanth Narayanan. (2013) Enabling effective design of multimodal interfaces for speech-to-speech translation system: An empirical study of longitudinal user behaviors over time and user strategies for coping with errors. Computer Speech & Language 27(2):554-571
Porting Dialog Systems across Languages
Laxstrom et al., 2016 N. Laxstrom, K. Jokinen and G. Wilcock. 2016. Internationalisation and localisation of spoken dialogue systems. In Proceedings of Seventh International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems, IWSDS-2016, Saariselka.
Stepanov et al., 2013Evgeny A. Stepanov, Ilya Kashkarev, Ali Orkan Bayer, Giuseppe Riccardi, and Arindam Ghosh. (2013) Language style and domain adaptation for cross-language SLU porting. In Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.
Suendermann et al., 2009David Suendermann, Jackson Liscombe, Krishna Dayanidhi, Roberto Pieraccini. (2009) Localization of Speech Recognition in Spoken Dialog Systems: How Machine Translation Can Make Our Lives Easier. Interspeech 2009
Meng and Li, 2006 H. Meng and D. Li. (2006) "Multilingual Spoken Dialog Systems," in Multilingual Speech Processing (T. Schultz, K. Kirchkoff, Eds), pages 399-447, Academic Press.
Multilingual chat
Wilcock and JokinenGraham Wilcock and Kristiina Jokinen. (2015) Multilingual WikiTalk: Wikipedia-based talking robots that switch languages. SIGDial 2015.
Speech-to-Speech Translation
Prasad et al., 2013R. Prasad, P. Natarajan, D. Stallard, S. Saleem, S. Ananthakrishnan, S. Tsakalidis, C. Kao, F. Choi, R. Meermeier, M. Rawls, J. Devlin, K. Krstovski, and A. Challenner. (2013) BBN TransTalk: Robust Multilingual Two-Way Speech-to-Speech Translation for Mobile Platforms. Computer Speech & Language, 27[2]:475-491.
Ettelaie et al, 2005Ettelaie E, Gandhe S, Georgiou P, Knight K, Marcu D, Narayanan S, et al. Transonics: a practical speech-to-speech translator for English-Farsi medical dialogues. In: ACL '05: Proceedings of the ACL 2005
Classic papers
Wahlster, 2000W. Wahlster. (2000) Mobile Speech-to-Speech Translation of Spontaneous Dialogs: An Overview of the Final Verbmobil System. In Verbmobil: Foundations of Speech-to-Speech Translation, (ed.) W. Wahlster. Springer. p. 3-21.