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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
A Strategy for Information Presentation in Spoken Dialog Systems
<22> Originality: Describes a novel method for presenting information about available options (restaurants, movies, flights) in spoken dialogue systems, when a large number of diverse options are available. By structuring options based on a model of the user's preferences, the system can automatically determine relevant trade-offs between alternative options and present these trade-offs explicitly.
Significance: Pre-prints of this paper led to invitations as Distinguished Speaker at Columbia University, invited speaker at ENLG2011, and AT&T and IBM Watson Research Laboratories.
Rigour: Experimental study with human participants showed that our method led to increased task effectiveness and efficiency over previously proposed methods.
