Marilyn A. Walker

TL;DR: Experimental results for recognition of all Big Five personality traits, in both conversation and text, utilising both self and observer ratings of personality are reported, confirming previous findings linking language and personality, while revealing many new linguistic markers.

TL;DR: Paradise (PARAdigm for DIalogue System Evaluation) as discussed by the authors is a general framework for evaluating spoken dialogue agents, which decouples task requirements from an agent's dialogue behaviors, supports comparisons among dialogue strategies, enables the calculation of performance over subdialogues and whole dialogues, specifies the relative contribution of various factors to performance, and makes it possible to compare agents performing different tasks by normalizing for task complexity.

TL;DR: The design, construction and empirical evaluation of NJFun, an experimental spoken dialogue system that provides users with access to information about fun things to do in New Jersey, are reported on.

TL;DR: A number of models for predicting system usability (as measured by user satisfaction), based on the application of PARADISE to experimental data from three different spoken dialogue systems, are developed and shown to generalize well.

TL;DR: This work describes a multimodal application architecture which combines finite-state multimodAL language processing, a speech-act based multimodals dialogue manager, dynamic multimodale output generation, and user-tailored text planning to enable rapid prototyping of multimodality interfaces with flexible input and adaptive output.